he supposed she knew the old madras shorts were too small , worn out in the bargain , but he guessed she had put them on because they , made a link with a more comforting childhood , a childhood where daddies did not have to go to court and stand trial ( no matter how cut-and-dried that trial might be , with your old golf buddy and that drunken grabber of your wife 's tit , cary rossington , driving the gavel ) , a childhood where kids did not rush up to you on the soccer field during period four while you were eating your lunch to ask you how many points your dad had gotten for bagging the old lady .