THE SIMPLE ANSWER
IS ALMOST ALWAYS BEST
The man of the house agreed to answer questions for a telephone poll. Subject: politics. He is a conservative, and a lot of things that have been going on lately in the political world have his ears steaming. He is not afraid to delve into controversy, and speak his mind. So here we go.
Maddy quietly finished her class valentines, and I eavesdropped while preparing to make 4,000 cupcakes for the various Valentine's celebrations coming up.
His answers were terse, rapid-fire, decisive:
"Yes."
"No."
"60%."
"Yes."
"No."
After a long stream of answers, he suddenly paused and said:
"I don't care to answer that."
Both sets of eavesdropping eyebrows shot up.
After he hung up, we asked what the question was that he didn't care to answer.
"They asked me what RACE I am," he said, fuming; the implication was that such a question should be irrelevant.
But Maddy intervened with another dose of that Kid Common Sense:
"Why didn't you just tell him the HUMAN race?!?"
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