Lines...

Me: What are you doing?
NC: [slowly taking some NurtraSweet packets and drawing them closer to her purse] I’m just taking a few. For later.
Me: [puzzled look on my face] If you want some, then go to the store and BUY some.
NC: But I’m poor.
Me: Then get a job.
NC: I am. It’s just a few. For tea later.
Me: [staring in disbelief] Well at least your taking the kind that cause cancer.

I should have introduced the concept of ‘going without’, but not sure it would have penetrated her particular sense of morality. What she doesn’t know is that I saw her take some honey packets earlier as well.

Observing this type of behavior makes me wonder ‘where does she draw her line?’ Is it arbitrary? Would she take some aspirin from my medicine cabinet? Some loose change off my desk? A roll of toilet paper from my bathroom? A banana from my kitchen counter? Until you know someone, you just don’t know.


May 22, 2005	Lines... Me: What are you doing? NC: [slowly taking some NurtraSweet packets and drawing them closer to her purse] I’m just taking a few. For later. Me: [puzzled look on my face] If you want some, then go to the store and BUY some. NC: But I’m poor. Me: Then get a job. NC: I am. It’s just a few. For tea later. Me: [staring in disbelief] Well at least your taking the kind that cause cancer. I should have introduced the concept of ‘going without’, but not sure it would have penetrated her particular sense of morality. What she doesn’t know is that I saw her take some honey packets earlier as well. Observing this type of behavior makes me wonder ‘where does she draw her line?’ Is it arbitrary? Would she take some aspirin from my medicine cabinet? Some loose change off my desk? A roll of toilet paper from my bathroom? A banana from my kitchen counter? Until you know someone, you just don’t know.
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