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When he was about two years old, my mother bought my brother Marshall a pair of red shoes that he hated. He really wanted blue shoes, but they were unavailable in his size.
ОглавлениеOne day, instead of waiting for Mom in front of our house as instructed, Marshall went for an unsupervised walk down the block and he threw the shoes and his socks into a sewer and then he walked home barefoot and defiant.
I don’t know what was wrong with the socks. Maybe Marshall just liked being barefoot. Or defiant. Mom replaced the red shoes and Marshall was not allowed to wear them unsupervised.
Marshall was actually continuing a pattern that I had established earlier. When I was young I disposed of a dirty piece of paper by flushing it down the toilet.
Unfortunately the piece of paper, while dirty, was a perfectly functional $10 bill.
Lesson: Supervise your kids.
