Ask Him Why

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Once I was watching a football game with my father, and he told me that the referee will always catch the second bit of unsportsmanlike conduct. You know. When the play is over, and one guy takes a swing at another. And the guy swings back. The ref always sees the second infraction.

“Nothing in this life is simple,” he said. “And all the troubles o’ the world come in because people can’t abide that. They have to try to make things black and white, but nothing ever will be. It’s where all the bad stuff gets its start.”

You can do anything you want, so long as you’re willing to pay the bill when it comes in.