Talented

You don't have to be talented to shoplift, but you do need to have balls. A couple friends and I got started back in junior high, hitting Perkins Apothecary regularly. We'd cut through the store on our way home from school and crotch a Watchamacallit or $100,000 Bar as we passed by the candy racks. I wouldn't say I progressed from there, as much as I regressed to a toddler mentality in which everything was mine for the taking. As the targets got more challenging our approach developed a metrical precision. There was a rhythm to creating a diversion while the other guy shoved a couple bottles of pop into his gym bag. But I quit and took up smoking when I turned 18.

I wasn't proud that my son was taking after his old man, but I had forfeited my right to judge back in the alley amidst the trash cans with my plunder. I walked in on the little bugger enjoying a feast of jumbo Snickers and a king-size Kit Kat. I stared him down under the sterile florescent hallway light and forced him to delineate his crimes. I was shocked at how he had independently assimilated a quite thorough mastery of the quick hit.

I was not capable of protecting the boy from his baser instincts. I suppose as a result of my failure to discipline him, I had reauthorized my own inner miscreant.

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