My best friend told me today over lunch that she thought I'd make a great dad, mostly because I'm a big kid myself. Aren't parents supposed to be the responsible disciplinarians? And I thought that was especially odd, since she'd admitted a couple of weeks ago that she was among the masses who believed I was more mature than others of my age, and that if she didn't know how old I was, she too would guess I was anywhere from 3-6 years older than I actually am, as most people are wont to do when they first meet me. It's an odd dichotomy.
How ironic that this remark came only a week after my mom gave me a magnet with this Ogden Nash quote on it that she thought fit me perfectly: "You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely."