"Why is this big?"

So Saturday, we all go out to dinner at a local restaurant. The restaurant has 2 or 3 televisions and the Kentucky Derby is on each of them. The restaurant is about half full and looking around, I see nobody really seems to be watching the horse-racing festivities on the tube. I am not really surprised.

I can remember as child gathering around the television with the family to watch the Kentucky Derby and this would be preceded by weeks of news coverage on the race and we seemed to know which horses were running and which one's were our favorites. We watched the race and I think I can recall mildly enjoying it. I can also recall going to at least one big Kentucky Derby party at a relative's house as again this was a big deal back then.

Times have changed. I know that casinos and other forms of legalized gambling have kind of killed off the sport of horse-racing and now it does seem to be a rusted-out relic from an earlier time. I frankly have no feelings one way or the other on that situation. It is what it is.

Anyway, we watched the race.

The verdict from the kids: Boring (where is our food?)

The jockey of the winning horse appeared to be crying tears of joy on his victory lap and Skate Kid asked me why he was crying. I told him that he was crying because he was happy because he just won a very big race.

His response: "Why is this big?"

Says it all, I guess.*

*P.S. Computer Boy just walked by and asked what I was writing about and I told him "The Kentucky Derby".

His response: Why?