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| Ever helpful and concerned. |
Kids can make eating out such an . . . adventure.
It was the early fifties.
Mom and Dad were travelling in Montana with their three
small children.
As they drove past the Deer Lodge prison, Dad tried to explain
to four-year old Chris and two-year-old Jerry just what it was. He told them
that when people were bad, the police would lock them up in the big building
for punishment.
The original ‘time-out’.
He wasn’t sure just how much his two oldest children took
in.
The next morning, he had his answer.
The family had stopped nearby for breakfast. While they were
eating, a deputy sheriff came in for coffee, then proceeded to tell the waiter
about his exciting evening. One very intoxicated individual had been disruptive
at a local dance and the deputy had had to take the man to the local jail to
sober up. There were no charges to be laid, so all that remained was to get the
fellow up and send him home.
Throughout this story, Chris and Jerry were busily eating,
not really paying attention to the tale.
Finally, the man stood up and said, “Well, I guess I’d
better go down and get my boy out of jail!”
Chris looked at her parents wide-eyed and very concerned. “That
man’s little boy is down there in the jail!” she said loudly.
See?
