IN the 90s, there was this show called 'Kids Say The Darndest Things,' which was supposed to be funny, but I could not relate to it because I was a kid myself back then, too. Duh. Imagine laughing at the serious things you say as an adult, right? It's giving the same energy. By the way, we say 'relate TO' when we're talking about a connection to something, and 'relate WITH' when we mean having a good relationship with someone. Sorry, I digress. Going back to my story, one thing that's off the top of my head when I think about the darndest things that I said when I was a kid was this anecdote that my mother wouldn't let me hear the end of. As you may know by now, I went to La Salle Greenhills from kindergarten all the way to high school, and while the education was fantastic, there was a downside to it. My family was from the middle class, and to go to school with rich boys was really something else, especially for young boys who haven't grown much hair on their bodies as they have their self-confidence. It really can mess you up. The peer pressure is 'peer pressuring,' so to speak. Back then, my uncle was the governor of a particular province in the north, and I somehow associated being a governor with being rich. Darndest nga 'di ba? Well, let's face it: being an elected public official in high office has always been prestigious and even then, I already knew this was the case. So, one day, I decided to make my father one. I told my classmates that he was the governor of a small town in Tarlac where he grew up and which we visited occasionally — not knowing how all of it went. Well, nobody's going to know. How would they know? I really think I created this meme in the 90s.