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RE: Henry Gant, Man About Town. This episode: 50-word story challenge. "Lemon. "
Very good. I have read/watched on the news so many stories like this. It's hard to believe something like this can happen in real life, but it does. You kept the element of suspense to the end. Great.
I don't blame the police for enforcing such ordinances. There are things that go on before they are called to the scene of the "crime". In the YouTube example, it is the competing sidewalk vendors who demanded that the lemonade stand be taken down. My 50-word story is really a story of a simpler time having slipped away.
Thank you for your reply, @hlezama.
H. G.
That is what I got from it too — that bittersweet memory of a time when a lemonade stand was just a bit of summertime fun.
I'm reminded of simpler times: Riding bikes without helmets; skinned knees, black eyes, smiles, and Norman Rockwell paintings.
Thank you for your comment @jayna.
H. G.
You are welcome. I also share this sense of nostalgia for so many things that have slipped away in the name of .... order? progress? globalization? tech advancement? And, in the particular case of children, it is ironic that a society (and i mean globally) that boasts to love and protect them, we see so many absurd legal decisions that totally contradict such premises.