At least it was for a happier cause: two women from Portugal invited me to go dancing at a club with a 14-euro cover.
"The only thing that's going to keep me going," says Lopes, "is the man who can make me happy … 'Cause all my happiness ain't coming from this career".
But in a less happy case, if a pedestrian causes a minor traffic jam by crossing against a red light, she explains her mistake as the result of her not noticing, and therefore not knowing, the status of the traffic signal that all the motorists knew.
Otherwise, editors ran the stories they wanted, happy to cause mischief.
Happy to cause his own mischief, Jones highlighted the frailty of the Australia line-out and zeroed in on their captain Stephen Moore.
Yet he gives the impression, as a Wall Street Journal report put it, that "he would be happy to cause a Gore defeat".
An old school powerhouse of a striker, seemingly happy to cause a rumpus in an empty room.
He absolutely will not like it and be far from happy and cause Manager Don Mattingly a few maddening moments, but Ethier wouldn't sour the clubhouse.
Maybe what they're doing is very cunning, because now, every time Theresa May says she's rejecting the petition, she'll look like she's happy to cause embarrassment towards the Queen.
Don't get me wrong: I am happy the cause of the darkest day of my life is gone, but that it had to come to death by no means excites me.
