Five Minute Friday: "Why?"

 

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In this week's Hodgepodge, Mrs. Joyce asked us whether we liked to ask questions or were we content with our present knowledge.  I'm not content with what I know; it's not enough.  I have a lot of "whys" in my mind; some serious, some not so serious; some that can be answered, some that can't, and some that have answers that people are too proud or too lazy to implement:

• Why do people still treat a single woman over 18 3/4 like a defective freak?
• Why did anyone ever invent select-a-size paper towels?  And why make them not to tear to the size you "select"?
• Why are teenagers dumb enough to eat soap for popularity?  And why do politicians blame the soap company instead of chalking it up to the kids being numbskulls? 

• Why is when senseless violence happens like that in Florida this week, everyone wants to start screaming "gun control."  How about some "people control?"   Hey, when some deranged idiot plows into a crowd with his car, there's no cry for "vehicle control."  Why do we politicize the death of innocent people?  Besides, if we don't teach people the sanctity of human life in the womb, why should we expect them to care about lives outside of it?

 And, no, "because" is not the right answer.

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