Meet the Amazing Peanut Boy. Peanut Boy doesn't really exist, but I like the name and so Peanut Boy it is.
Peanut Boy came about from the day my dad told me all about the birds and the bees and where babies come from and do they really come from peanuts?
Well...somewhere back around 1968 or some time around then my dad took my brother and I to a baseball game and we got a bag or peanuts each, but being the little kid I was I didn't really have that much of an appetite so I took my peanuts home with me. The next day while my brother and me were at the kitchen table trying to put together a brand new model of a Sherman tank dad sat down beside us and decided it was time for us to learn the great saga of the birds and the bees. Two things come to mind about that day. One, I was still only about eight years old and two, I had no clue what I was doing with that tank nor did I have the first clue what my dad was talking about, but I did know this was serious stuff so I paid about as much attention to him as I did to my third grade teacher right after recess.
Anyway, as dad babbled on about the grand subject at hand somewhere I heard these words: "...and the man puts his peanuts in the woman. And that's where babies come from." (hint: substitute the word peanuts for penis) Now you know where Peanut Boy comes from. More to the point, perhaps you now understand a little about the inner workings of the brain of Peanut Boy as a grown man. That would be me by the way.
And so for several years I worked on the question: Just what the hell do peanuts have to do with making babies? I knew the man put his peanuts in the woman, this much was crystal clear, but the big stumper was: WHY? So I grew up with that mottled knowledge until, duh..."Oh, thats what he meant all those years ago.", floated across my consciousness.
In case you're wondering, I have my own kids who are now grown ups, a 25 year old man doing just fine for himself and a 23 year old woman and a couple of grandkids who are on the verge themselves of learning the saga of the birds and the bees. I just hope they don't have to wonder how the hell peanuts make babies.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
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