my family, we stopped off at a store
along the way and told my niece, then
five years old, that she could get herself
a little sumthin’. She came up to the
register with a six-pack of orange Tic
Tacs and charmed her way into getting
the whole thing, instead of being told to
put it back and just buy one.
So we get back in the car and I ask
her if I can have a pack, my only intent to
teach the greedy little piglet a thing or
two about sharing. “Of course,” she says
and hands it over. She then asks, in her
itty-bitty five-year-old voice, if my
brother and my mom want one too, and
hands them over. My niece then takes her
remaining three packs and places them