Gene's Hot Tub
(The Stills - Yesterday Never Tomorrows)

I'll be the platform shoes and undo what heredity's done to you...
You won't have to strain to look into my eyes
...

Heredity is a funny thing -- it can be passed on from generation to generation and lie dormant without anyone ever knowing about it. I often sit here and think of how many dysfuntional traits I'm carrying in me right now that I might pass down to my future kids. What if one of my great, great grandfathers had a genetic disposition for compulsive nose-picking that I carry as a recessive gene? What if one of my great grandmothers had a fetish for being spanked? Will my kids inherit these traits? It's pretty much a crapshoot isn't it? I liken the whole hereditary experience to sharing a hot tub. You know there have been a lot of people in that hot tub and you know some of them didn't bathe before they got in, but you just hope that all the bad germs will be caught by the filter or killed by the chlorine and hot water before you step in.

FYI - I don't like being spanked.