On 8/13/2017 10:21 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 8/13/2017 8:56 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2017-08-13 7:40 AM, Janet wrote:
>> They had fun with her compulsive eating and her apparent enjoyment of
>> stealing food. It was buffet meal. If she wanted more chicken
>> nuggets she could have gone to the table and taken fresh food. She
>> was stealing half eaten food from other people's plates.
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>>> You should be ashamed of him, and your own parenting.
>>
>> 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.

Teenagers (especially boys) are not known for being nice. They find
belching or farting in public (or arm-pit farts) amusing. Picking on
the much older niece for scavenging off plates seems like an obvious
choice for teenage boys. Turned out they were right. <shrug>

Jill