"The Buckets" is about that sinking feeling we get when we realize we're grown-ups, and someone expects us to act like it.
That old saying that 'youth is squandered on the young' is WRONG. The average parent, if he or she were allowed to be a teen again, would squander the snot out of youth, and do it with a zest and zeal that a first-time teenager would find both stunning and excessive.
So, here we are, adults, and we might as well get a good laugh out of ourselves before someone expects us to fill out a form or something.