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PB & J(ARRED NERVES)

We’re not the only parents whose children make big messes and then are so cute when confronted, it’s hard to keep a straight, stern face.

My friend’s son, at age 2, made steps out of the kitchen drawers and climbed up to the upper cabinets, fetching a huge jar of crunchy peanut butter.

Then he spread it all over the newly-painted upstairs hallway wall – an elaborate finger-painting job. It must have been an absolute mess.

Now that he is a junior grownup, he swears that is just a fable. However, she found the snapshots that prove it.

Then he said they didn't prove HE was the one who did the finger painting, just that he was on the scene. He was just standing in the picture, looking not the least bit remorseful.

Maybe this is why we have to pay our judges and prosecutors so much. Somebody has to stop antisocial behavior and foster personal responsibility by getting to the truth. It’s just so hard, and my nerves couldn’t take it.