Why Daddy Can't Write
Rick Reilly
May 05, 2003
Take our Daughters to Work Day was last Thursday, so I took my 13-year-old, Rae, for the first time. Hey, a kid will do anything to miss a day of school. By noon she was begging to go back.
HER: How long does it take you to write a column?
ME: About two hours.
HER: And you only have to do one a week?
ME: Yes.
HER: Cool! What do you do with all the rest of the time?
ME: Worry about those two hours.
After about an hour of that, she was going out of her teenage mind, so I let her wade into a giant box of unopened mail.
HER: Why do all these Barry Bonds fans cut little letters out of magazines and make sentences out of them?
ME: I guess they get to do a lot of arts and crafts at the mental health center.
HER: What does this mean, "If I ever see you, run"?