Tonight I went to the park with my two kids and then I agreed to watch four more kids to help out a friend.  So the seven of us had a great time playing at the park, running through the Splash Deck, playing kickball and just having fun.

Then as the fun at the park was starting to run out at the park, I decided that we'd all walk the two blocks to Dairy Queen.  Everyone loves ice cream don't they?

We get there and get our order and are eating on a bench by the front of the DQ and I look around and notice that everyone there is giving us a wide berth.  I mean we couldn't have had more room if we'd had body guards surrounding us and maintaining a perimeter.

So I started formulating a theory in the back of my mind.  I remember when I first got seperated from my ex-wife 6 years ago and I would take my two boys shopping at the mall or Target.  People, mostly women would say hi or stop and talk or make comments about how cute the boys were.  Tonight the kids were being cute and not being loud or obnoxious.  I'd normally assume that people would say hi or smile or something friendly.  They just looked at us as if you could get pregnant just by hanging around the incredibly virile and obviously fertile man in their midst. 

So I guess a single guy hanging out eating ice cream with one or maybe two kids is independent and sexy and someone whom you'd talk to.  A guy hanging out eating ice cream with six kids might as well have freaking leprosy.