On 2017-08-13 10:21 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 8/13/2017 8:56 AM, Dave Smith wrote:

>>> You should be ashamed of him, and your own parenting.
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>> Really? I have to admit that it was interesting to watch. The two
>> teenage cousins were very subtle about it. They would take a bite out
>> of a piece of food and then set it on a plate and walk away, and
>> within minutes she would come along and take the half eaten food that
>> was sitting on a plate in the sun.
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> It really was not nice to do that, but it is what teenagers do. My kids
> would have done it too. That is the reality of life.



You're right. It was not nice of the two young cousins to set up their
cousin who was more than 15 years older than they were at the time. You
have to appreciate the novelty of the situation, that a woman close to
40 years of age would be acting like a seagull at a seashore picnic,
snapping up pieces of half eaten food off other people's unattended plates.