re: What's the simplest thing you've had to explain to a full grown adult?

Walking to my truck, while we were crossing a very busy Hargrove one night after a game, my girlfriend started to lolligag as a car rapidly approached us. I beckoned her to giddyup; however, she replied, "they'll slow down, I might hurt their car." I grab her and escort her to safety.

I had to explain to her that it doesn't matter how you would approach an oncoming conflict. It's how they might be thinking or feeling. What if that speeding wagon was driven by a drunken fool, mad about losing their game, who simply isn't thinking correctly. Perhaps they'll smash you and think they had gained "points," and will only realize it differently after your mangled body is used as evidence of their poor judgment.

"I never thought of it that way," she said. From that day I've been able to etch away at the selfishness afforded a single child to a house with both of her parents loving -- each other, but especially her.