The present is now and the simple present tense is used to talk about actions that happen now. If you do something every day, or sometimes, or usually, or every Saturday, you use the simple present ...

You know how the joke begins: “A guy walks into a bar…” But wait, for you to know the punch line, this has to be past tense. So wouldn’t it be, “A guy walked into a bar…?” It could be. But usually it ...