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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1256672, member: 31533&quot;]True Story... </p><p>When my brother was about 8 or 9, and we lived right next to a gas station, he would go visit with the owner. This was way before self serve, so the owner had a lot to do. My brother was very personable and charming, could socialize like crazy with adults he didn&#039;t know, and also had no conceptualization of what someone else&#039;s belongings meant to them and could not conceive that &quot;stealing&quot; was wrong. Of course the owner of the gas station had a hard lesson to learn coming to him.</p><p>This owner had a floor safe, which was usually kept locked, I presume, and under a mat. Well, he had no Idea that my brother, when visiting, had observed that or cared. One time my brother was visiting, the owner had the safe open, but was called to help a customer, and he quickly closed it up, but did not lock it. He went to help the customer and was gone a few minutes. When he came back, my brother was gone along with a number of rolls of dimes from his safe. My brother never admitted to it (to anyone but me), but I helped him spend the money (about 5 or 10 dollars worth) and the owner of the gas station banned my brother from being over there. </p><p><br /></p><p>Later on, it was only when my brother was in his 30&#039;s that he began to understand that other peoples belongings were not his for the taking, and it took people stealing his stuff to get him that far I believe. I call him a &quot;late bloomer&quot; regarding that. Loved him so much but couldn&#039;t trust him for that, and I think my brother really did have no concept of that. My brother was a thief from the time he was 5 on to just before he died. Maybe because of a fall he had when he was 1-1/2 (fell from top of bleachers to ground and landed partially on his head), I don&#039;t know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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