Huh, maybe we lived in the same neighborhood?
Lady around the corner from me had two hoodlum sons, a year apart, and they terrorized my family and several others. She never took any responsibility for her boys’ transgressions. They got away with all sorts of stuff. Even started a fire in my side yard, really close to our wooden fence. I was lucky to get it put out quickly.
One time, when one was caught shoplifting, she turned to another boy who was with him, who didn’t know that the one had stolen anything until it was too late, and she said, “why didn’t you stop him from doing it?”. Hey lady, he didn’t know your son had taken anything. He wasn’t in on it. Your son was a thief and got caught finally. The owner of the store called the cops, and the cops called her. All they got was a chance to sit in the cop car while the parents were called.
The kid grew up to be a used car salesman, no lie.
wow! Yeah. it’s too bad just anyone can be a parent. Too bad for the kids and the rest of us.
‘Used car salesman’ haha!
Well, that’s a fate worse than death.
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