Project Sweet Life
““Uh, I have the day off,” I said. According to my “schedule,” I didn’t really have the day off. But I was getting tired of lying to my parents, and for some reason this lie-within-a-lie seemed somehow less serious.
As my mom was sorting through recipes, I noticed the front page of the newspaper. It had a big story: Local woman receives reward for capturing bank robbers.
Mildred Shelby, the article read, the 76-year-old woman who provided the information leading to the July 11th arrest of two robbers of the University Place branch of Capitol American Bank, received her just reward yesterday—a check for one hundred thousand dollars, given by the bank’s national headquarters, in accordance with a long-standing policy to thank those who thwart robberies.
It was the very end of July, almost three weeks after we’d solved the mystery of the bank robbers, and the lady who had taken the credit for it was finally getting her reward. There was even a photo of the old biddy smiling and accepting ...the check just outside the bank branch.MoreLess
As my mom was sorting through recipes, I noticed the front page of the newspaper. It had a big story: Local woman receives reward for capturing bank robbers.
Mildred Shelby, the article read, the 76-year-old woman who provided the information leading to the July 11th arrest of two robbers of the University Place branch of Capitol American Bank, received her just reward yesterday—a check for one hundred thousand dollars, given by the bank’s national headquarters, in accordance with a long-standing policy to thank those who thwart robberies.
It was the very end of July, almost three weeks after we’d solved the mystery of the bank robbers, and the lady who had taken the credit for it was finally getting her reward. There was even a photo of the old biddy smiling and accepting ...the check just outside the bank branch.MoreLess
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