Re: books-n-stuff NJC

[Jerry Notaro]

Tyler Hewitt wrote:

> The truth
> came out, and she marched me back to the candy
> counter, terrified and crying, made me tell the clerk
> that I stole and pay for the candy.
> I still remember that lesson clearly, and I've always
> had a huge aversion to shoplifting.

How well our generation remember those lessons. Nowadays the mother would
have berated the shop clerk for leaving the candy out in the open to tempt
her precious son.

Jerry