Or because if they did have it, then they wouldn't be in this situation, then Anita wouldn't be able to wangst all over the place about her sweeties being stuck there even though we know nobody's ever going to get hurt if they're in her inner circle. Unless Jon (you know, her husband?) suddenly hops on someone else's gravy train.

...Kind of like a cop-out version of having everything working against your character. Except in LKH's case, nothing ever happens and nobody ever learns from it.