In chatting with Grasshopper No.5 recently, I told her that I loved watching the movie "Parenthood". Surprisingly, she said it was one of her favorite flicks. No.5 began to sing the opening song by the kids in the the back of the mini-van as the family was returning from a major league baseball game.
If you are running fast to first and you feel your bloomers burst, diarrhea, diarrhea.
If you are running second down and your trousers are turning brown, diarrhea, diarrhea.
If you're sliding into third and you feel a squishing turd, diarrhea, diarreha.
If you are crashing into home and your pants fill up with foam, diarrhea, diarrhea.
It is interesting that with all the lessons in 'Parenthood" such as disrespectful kids, ugly divorces, unwanted pregnancies, a derelict son and obsessive parents, people remember the "diarrhea song".
In the end, life presents many difficult situations that we probably take way to serious. There is a humorous side to parenthood and somehow things always workout.
So as Steve Martin says in the movie "we spent all that money to send our kid to camp and the only thing he remembers is the "diarrhea song". Yep. But at least he learned something.
The lesson Grasshoppers is that life probably won't turn out the way you want. That is okay. Why should you be different?
Love,
Dad