Unit 4
Fun, Oh Boy. Fun. You Could Die from it
Suzanne Britt Jordan
1Fun is hard to have.
2Fun is a rare jewel.
3Somewhere along the line people got the modern idea that fun was there for the
have a little fun every day we would asking, that people des erved fun, that if we didn’t
turn into (sakes alive!) puritans.
4 “Was it fun?”　
became the question that overshadowed all other questions: good questions like: Was it moral? Was it kind? Was it honest? Was it beneficial? Was it generous? Was it necessary? And (my favorite) was it selfless?
5 When the pleasures got to be the main thing, the fun fetish was sure to follow.
Everything was supposed to be fun. If it wasn’t fun, then by Jove, we were going to make it fun, or else.
6 Think of all the things that got the reputation of being fun. Family outings were
supposed to be fun. Sex was supposed to be fun. Education was supposed to be fun.
Work was supposed to be fun. Walt Disney was supposed to be fun. Church was supposed to be fun. Staying fit was supposed to be fun.
pouring7 Just to make sure that everybody knew how much fun we were having, we put
happy faces on flunking test papers, dirty bumpers, sticky refrigerator doors, bathroom
mirrors.
8 If a kid, looking at his very happy parents traipsing through that very happy
Disney World, said, “This a in’t fun, ma,”　h is ma’s heart sank. She wondered where she had gone wr
ong. Everybody told her what fun family outings to Disney World would be. Golly gee, what was the matter?
9 Fun got to be such a big thing that everybody started to look for more and more
thrilling ways to supply it. One way was to step up the level of danger or licentiousness
or alcohol or drug consumption so that you could be sure that, no matter what, you would manage to have a little fun.
10 Television commercials brought a lot of fun and fun-loving folks into the picture.
Everything that people in those commercials did looked like fun: taking Polaroid snapshots, swilling beer, buying insurance, mopping the floor, bowling, taking aspirin.
We all wished, I’m sure, that we could have half as much fun as those rough-and-ready guys around the locker room, flicking each other with towels and pouring champagne.

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