LEGO---WTH??

  I read the Sunday paper after a fashion--skimming articles here and there, including Felix Carroll's "Life" column.  Every once in a while, my eye is caught by something that demands attention.  This week it was his article, "Can't we just block all this out?"  The topic:  boyhood, Legos, sex, and yes, Lego Sex.  He starts writing from the point of his memory, at 10 years of age, when he could just "be a boy."  He was fascinated with Legos, but at about that time he seemed to notice his father was beginning to get a little maudlin, anticipating the time when Legos would not be enough to keep his son engaged.  Father and son share the memory of the time,  following "that fearsome sound that echoed from the goo of creation across the spectrum of history...."  and the time that's coming when "you'll be out the front door where you'll put your ear to the ground and follow the sound."  No wonder the father doesn't like change anymore.
     Although the winds of change have started in the boy' life, they are still only rustlings and always away from home, in the schoolyard, among friends, so the boy in him thinks it strange that his father seems aware of the stirrings.  That is a scenario as old as time, the need to have "the talk," formerly about birds and bees, but now somehow centered on Legos.  The boy could not have known that his father learned from his browsing history and discovered "the saddest, sweetest search term he had ever encountered," that being "Lego sex."   If only  Heroic Knight was  changing a race car tire, and Cowboy was smiling only because it was a beautiful day, but alas, time moves us on.