Hypothesis

He wanted to know "the deal with single women and babies."

So I said, "Okay. You know when you're six? You're watching Saturday morning cartoons and a commercial break comes. You sit there on the couch--we're 21 now, so this is pre-Tivo, and you have to watch the commercials--and you watch, like, eight of them, and you're just fine. Still stationary. But then the ninth one comes, and suddenly every fiber of your body is freaking out, and you're scrunching your knees up to your chest and rocking back and forth, eyes bugged out, grabbing the first person that passes, pointing and begging, 'NOW! I need one of those now. You don't even understand. I need one of those, and I need it RIGHT NOW.'"

And then he understood perfectly.