I think I'd rather be the creepy guy than feel like this (hear me out here)...

So tonight I was headed to a high school home coming (football) game because my niece made the cheer squad and I was coming out to see her cheer (my family is very supportive like that). As we were getting closer to the school it occurred to me, my sister was a cheerleader when I was in high school and I used to go to all the games to watch her cheer and ogle her friends. I also remember that "tingly" feeling I'd get watching those cute cheerleaders jump around in their cute cheer uniforms.

Then I started to feel a little uneasy as we pulled into the parking lot of the school. I'm walking into a situation where it was OK then, for me to check out those girls, but now I'm 34 and a bit old to be checking out my niece's high school friends in that manner. I started to worry just a bit;

"Am I going to be that creepy older guy that is checking out girls that are WAY too young to even look at (Pavlovian response or not)?"

Talking to myself:
"OK, just focus on supporting your niece and watching the football game, don't let your eyes linger too much on the other girls, lets not turn this into a scene from American Beauty or anything."

So we get there and sit down, the cheerleaders come running out and start cheering as the players take the field. I look around for a moment with a bit of relief...

"Hey I don't feel creepy, I don't really feel anything that could be considered slightly inappropriate. These cheerleaders look like a bunch of little kids to me!"

My moment of relief was gone almost as fast as it came...

These cheerleaders look like a bunch of little kids to me!



Getting older sucks sometimes; can anyone else pin point that moment when you realize your youth was truly gone and you discover you're actually an adult?