Venting, venting......

VENT

noun
an air vent duct, flue, shaft, well, passage, airway; outlet, inlet, opening, aperture, hole, gap, orifice.
verb
the crowd vented their fury on the police release, air, give vent to, give free rein to, let out, pour out, express, give expression to, voice, give voice to, verbalize, ventilate, discuss, talk over, communicate.

So Millyrose ‘n I were at Winco picking up a few bare necessities (Ice Cream, Candy, a jug of milk, etc. etc.)...
Now, Winco is a bag-your-own place with two conveyor belts for each cashier....when we walked around the end to bag our goodies, a mother ‘n daughter came right behind us on the other side ‘n the little girl came rushing to help us...her mother chided her, saying “Those aren’t ours...”
Without thinking, (which seems t’be a relatively common state for me) I remarked that, “She must have seen that we have candy.” And then I compounded my first error by offering the little girl some candy. I did ask the mother if it was alright. I gave her some chocklit-covered p’nutz ‘n she said, “I love those. Are they your favorites too?”
Pretty much end of story. Millyrose ‘n I laughed over it as we walked to the car ‘n on the way home, I realized that I had prob’ly taught that little girl a dangerous lesson; namely, that she shouldn’t accept candy from strangers. ‘N then I tho’t, “What a pathetic place this world has become when giving candy to a child is a serious no-no!”
I don’t know what the population of the USA was when I was young, prob’ly 150K or a little more. Now, it’s around 330K ‘n growing by leaps ‘n bounds. Maybe if we become a bankrupt nation, all the movers ‘n shakers will emmigrate to China or sumplace.(ev’ry cloud has a silver lining, I’m told) Anyways, when I was a boy, the evening news wasn’t broadcast across country so what happened in Vegas pretty much stayed in Vegas. I’m pretty sure that people back then were just as mean ‘n evil as people t’day but we weren’t fed a steady diet of it on the news.
I think maybe there’s more’n a little truth to the old adage, “No news is good news!”