A few weeks ago, my husband took our four-year-old son to the grocery store to grab a few necessities (you know…milk, bread… wine). He came home with everything on the list (except the wine… whassup with that, baby?), and then some. As it turned out, while he was paying, our boy pocketed a $10 Bell calling card.
“What should we do?” my husband asked me as I diced onions for dinner. “Should we just keep it?”
“No,” I said. “We shouldn’t. You should take him back to the store and have him apologize and return it. Explain it to him on the way, so he knows what he’s doing; tell him he’s doing the right thing, righting a wrong… you know, shit like that.”
So off they went, back to the grocery store, where my son told the lady at the Customer Service counter that he was very sorry for taking the card home. Afterward, the sky filled with sparkly rainbows and unicorns pranced around the parking lot, and all was right with the world.
Well, okay, maybe not, but it was a pretty feel-good situation.
Kinda like the letter that Brooklyn-based Catbird, a boutique featuring trinkets and other nifty assortments, got from a little boy who apologized for nicking a locket for his mum for Mother’s Day while shopping there.
Dear Catbird people, Sorry I took the locket. My sister said what is a good Mother’s Day gift that day I thought that the locket would be a great present so I picked one and I didn’t known that they cost anything so I put it in my pocket.
Senceryley,
[Name withheld]
Also included was a drawing of a catbird – complete with whiskers, spindly little bird legs, and a tail.
Catbird posted about this on their blog and from the sounds of it, they’re not at all upset about their pint-sized thief. I hope they frame this note in their shop!
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