When I was 14 this teacher of mine was teaching me how to pick a lock behind my back. He was like a rogue locksmith, it was awesome. Right up until his wife found out, and then it got shut down.
I know. It's offensive. What happens now with my life? What happens when I am immorally detained in a prison in Minneapolis, have my back against a door with a bobby pin in my hands but can't escape because this woman, this short sighted woman shut down what was perhaps, with a potentially real possibility the most important training of my life? What happens to ME?!
I suppose I could just go to a locksmith type school or something. You know, the more upstanding way. But somehow I don't think locksmith school teaches me to pick a lock behind my back. I think it's probably more of a learn to pick locks in front of you type thing. Which I think personifies what's wrong with our country. we don't train up our children to their utmost capacities. Could I be doing the same thing I'm doing right now and still be able to pick locks behind my back? yes. Of course. But not now, that opportunity and gift was stolen, by a woman some years ago.
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