...Probably why I was destined to become a Trial Lawer....
...As a young child, I quickly understood what money was, and I saved it. My piggybank was full, and I got another one, in the shape of a rocket. That one was fun, I would place a coin in the 'launcher', and a spring would shoot the coin into the nose cone, and the coin would fall into the rocket. I am easy to entertain, so I would empty the rocket, and spend some time shooting the coins back into it.
...I tried to figure out how to earn more coin, and figured out that I could sell things. My friend and I would pick the huge Alberta Freestone peaches from my tree, and place them in my wagon, and go door to door, selling them for a nickel a piece. One Hispanic woman bought all that we had...she did canning...and asked if we had more. We went back to my house, and climbed into the tree and picked all of the ripe ones, and came back, and she bought them. We bought candy and jerky at the neighborhood store, and decided that commerce was 'good'.
...So, we combined commerce with larceny. We tied a fishnet to the end of a long bamboo pole, and stole apricots from the neighbor. We would fill the wagon with apricots, and go door to door, selling them. We would buy more candy and jerky, and agree that 'commerce' was good.
...When i got older, the neighbor laughed, saying that he had seen us stealing the apricots...but just left us alone. He couldn't eat them all...and was actually happy that we were stealing them...they didn't rot on the ground.
