Don’t let joy of
The Scottish Government seems to have convinced some people it’s handled Covid well. Kevan Christie disagrees
Iremember as a teenager often being told that I couldn’t do something and when I asked why was given the answer “because”. Of course being naturally inquisitive and a bit annoying, I would pursue this reason to get to the bottom of why I couldn’t stay at a friend’s house, go to a football match or attempt to get into an over-18s’ discotheque – well it was the early 80s.
The answer to this follow-up question was “just because” which left me even more frustrated at being denied the thing I desperately wanted to do. It actually became a joke in our house with my old man telling me and my younger brother that we had to learn to accept “because” as an answer. Character building.
This did little to shake my conviction that most adults should be ignored at every opportunity until they imparted something genuinely useful – money, for instance, or chocolate.
I imagine this is how golfers, tennis players, bowlers, people who fish and those who like nothing better than to mooch around Dobbies must have felt the past fortnight or so and I sense their frustrations.
Oor Nicola, the self-anointed Mother of the Nation during this time of crisis, had spoken and said you’re all staying in – no questions asked. “But my cousins in England are allowed oot.”
That nice dentist guy, Professor Jason Leitch, the self-styled man of the people who appears on Off the Ball with Tam Cowan and Stuart Cosgrove and can speak fluent jakey said so as well.
“But why can’t we play golf when it’s so easy to social distance and there’s loads of folk queuing outside Lidl?”
“Because.”
“But why can’t we play when golfers in England have been doing so since 13 May and courses in Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic opened this week?”
“Just because.”
Now I know the answer as to why golfers, tennis players and the like