THE WRONG QUESTIONS
Why do people have to ask, “Did you lose your ball?” or, “Did you find it yet?” when you’re out in the rough looking for it? What do they think you’re doing out there — checking on the fire ants or something? Why do people ask a person who’s trying to dig out of a snowbank, “Are you stuck?” One feels like answering, “No, my car died and I want to give it a decent burial?” Or — wet, disgusted, irritated, with a flat tire on a rainy night beside a busy road — why is one asked? “Have you got a flat tire?” “Oh, no?” you may feel like replying, “of course not, I always rotate my tires at night on a busy road when it’s raining?”
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