LD's Guide to Japan

I had no idea that ‘pregnant-woman tipping’ was such a big thing.  I thought it was just something me and my friends did when we wanted to feel like we were kids again… out on the farm… cows laying on their sides in front of us… hooves a-kickin’ wildly.  I certainly didn’t think it was popular enough to warrant a NYTimes letter to the editor from Bobby-May of Atlanta, GA, asking why, oh why, is it so hard to tip over them durn pregnant girls.  Leave it to the NYTimes, though, to turn it into some kinda scientific mumbo-jumbo about evolution and lumbars and all that.  If Bobby had written that letter to me, I’da told him, “Well, Bobby-May, that’s what makes it a sport.  It wouldn’t be no fun if they just fell right over without a challenge.  Now go back and fix yer mullet before Paw gets home.”

Ah, the subtle art of writing headlines…