Why Do We Have To Use Chop Stix?

If you're anything like me, you find yourself in the sushi restaurants quite often. As you look around the restaurant, you notice all of the people handling the sushi with the art of the "chopstick."

Now I consider myself a pretty smart and coordinated guy, but I have been eating sushi now for about 5 years, and I have not been able to successfully have a flawless round of sushi eating using them.

And of course you don't dare use anything else and receive the offending glares from the locals in the restaurant, casually using theirs like its Harry Potter's wand.

The questions I have is, why? Why do I have to suffer and risk losing have my roll, stumbling through the crack, when I could successfully use a fork and enjoy the whole roll. Why has our society adapted to using the stix, solely for the purpose of sushi. We haven't switched to the metric system just because the rest of the world has. I ask permission for the sushi connoisseurs to forgive me and accept as a handicap of mine, and not judge me if I choose not to use stix while eating sushi. I then could eat a lot more of my sushi, and feel not as bad for paying $30 for lunch.