THE GROWING YEARS: NAUGHTY JAKE ESCAPES

The lady stormed into the compound calling out to Jake. His elder sister who is more like his advocate came to hear why the lady needed Jake and why the fuss. "See what your brother wrote and pasted on our door. Where is he? I will not take this kind of insult from a small boy." Did I mention that Jake was only 13 at this time?

He was inside the house and had heard all that was going on outside. A master plotter will not come to his defense until called to the witness box.

"Jake, please come outside" his sister Joan called. He walked out like he was oblivious of what was going on.

"Did you write this and pasted it on their Auntie Mary's door?" Joan questioned.

"What is that?" Jake asked as he reached out for the paper. "This is not my handwriting. I don't write like this" he continued.

The lady insisted that no one would have written the note and that she has evidence. Jake rushed into the house and brought out his own note to present his evidence. And of course they couldn't nail him. The naughty little boy used an entirely different handwriting for the hate note.

Joan just apologized to Mary and that was how the case closed.

Naughty boys don't always win but the naughty and wise ones...