Life Is So Unfair

Yarvis shackled himself to a ball and chain. “Hey! Hey! You can’t do that!” He called out to some man walking by on the sidewalk.

The man stopped (his name was Paul), “Are you speaking to me?”

“Yeah,” Yarvis said, “You can’t be walking around like that without a ball and chain. You have an unfair advantage over me. How can I hope to compete?”

“But you shackled yourself,” Paul said, “and why does it matter? I’m just walking down the street. It’s not a competition.”

“Everything’s a competition!” Yarvis heaved his ball and chain along, “Hey! Don’t walk away! Cheater!”