charting the unforseen
So let’s go over some statistics. No , really, there’s a point behind this, and while my writing is terribly indirect and non concise, you’ll be glad you followed in this beginning part.
- My mother got married when she was 17, and had her first child when she was 18.
- My grandmother got married when she was 15, and had her first child when she was 17.
- My great grandmother got married when she was 11, and I don’t know what age she was when she had her first child. But I do know that for a fact, she played with her two stepchildren. Not like a nanny play with her kids, like you played in the back yard with your neighbors way back when. That’s how they played.
Naturally, this needs to be plotted in some sort of graph. Because I’m pretty certain my coordinates are drastically apparent.
Now if I recalled anything from my college statistics course in business undergrad, I’d have done a way better data graph that concluded with some regression analysis. But I got a C in that class, so this is all you get. Sadly, this graph also assumes that I’d be getting married before I turned 28, which is like 20 days away. But even still, my data points are the obvious outliers. They aren’t even REAL and they’re still terribly different from that of 3 other generations of women in my family.
Now what I really wonder sometimes, is if I’ll even enter this chart. And for some reason, I think that if I should enter this chart, if I’m still fertile to have children, they’d need to be born like at age 15 so I’m not geriatric by the time she needs a training bra.
Either way you look at it, I’m off the fucking chart.
I’ve replaced the children in this photograph with an iPod and a beer.
