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Subject: What you see, is not what you get!
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This story comes from a variety of sources but most recently from
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the experience of a very good friend of mine....
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The other evening he was at a large local home supply store
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looking for plumbing supplies. There was a young and obviously
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very preoccupied woman shopping in the same isle. It was
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apparent that she was attempting plumbing repair for the first
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time and was doing her best to figure out just what it was that
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she needed to do the job.
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In the mean time there was a small boy, about 4 or 5, who from
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the looks of things, was the child of this young, preoccupied
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woman. Now this little fellow was trying very hard to get his
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mother's attention. He was tugging on her sleeve, pulling at her
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purse, and doing what ever he could to divert her attention from
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the various valves and pipes to his own plight.
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What made this scene all the more touching was the way the little
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boy was dancing about with his knees pressed together and one
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hand clutching the region between his front pockets. It was
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quite obvious that this little fellow had a very urgent plumbing
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need himself.
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This went on for just a short while before the little boy, aware
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that his mother was not about to come to his aid, went looking
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for a solution to his problem.
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It must have been the sudden lack of tugs and pulls that got his
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mother's attention. When she turned to find her son she was
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horrified to see him standing in one of the model bath displays,
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pants around his ankles, and preparing to test out one of the
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more familiar of the devices.
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All through the store you could hear her plaintive cry......
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AL-FRED NOT (pause) that one ... it wasn't hooked up.
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