Give It Up
There are many different types of thieves. There are the thieves that so proliferate in the upper echelons of companies and governments that neatly steal millions of euros with no violence whatsoever. Then there are the thieves, that armed with what they can find, break into a house, a store, or a car to take anything of value. The worst thieves, for many people, are those who wave a gun in the face of the victim. That's what the storekeeper of a bakery in the province of Alicante must have thought the other day when a man in a ski mask walked into the establishment, took out a gun and demanded the money from the cash register. The woman, scared, backed up to the door leading to the kitchen, and called her husband. When the husband came out, a burly guy, the thief got second thoughts and put away the gun. Innocently, he asked how much a pastry cost. The husband, bewildered, responded, "Forty cents." The thief took out the money, paid for the pastry, and left. (As I l...