{"id":818,"date":"2013-05-09T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.95\/~redletu4\/stealing-ketchup\/"},"modified":"2013-05-09T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T11:30:00","slug":"stealing-ketchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/stealing-ketchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealing Ketchup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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So it\u2019s finally time to come clean.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I worked at a restaurant once as a teenager. It was the Nugget, on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe<\/a>. It was a small casino with a few 21 tables, a row of slots, and lots of bleary-eyed people pulling nickle slot machines.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The back of the casino had a small resturant where we served $2.99 stacks of pancakes and $7.99 prime rib. It was my first real job as I bussed tables, poured water and made it easy for the waiterresses to chat up the \u201chigh rollers\u201d for big tips.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The boss \u2014 a man shorter than I with a wax moustache \u2014 was overdressed for this little joint. But he was in charge and I thought he was particularly rough on me, often telling me in front of the waitresses I was trying to impress that I wasn\u2019t cleaning the seats in the booths. He was probably right. But he regularly insulted me. He embarrassed me.\n

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He tried to get me to respect him by showing me he was the boss. As a 16-year old, I knew the way things were supposed to work, but I had hoped for a better experience. I worked hard, but was learning along the way. At every step of the way I felt alienated and embossed. Unfortunately, there was no buffer.\n

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I have to admit I was very good at being a bad teenager. I was a pretty good kid, but I didn\u2019t like the feeling this boss gave me. So I got back at him<\/i>. One night, on my way out of the locker room, I snatched a brand new bottle of ketchup and stuck it in my coat pocket. That\u2019s right, a bottle of Heinz ketchup. Obviously all logic had departed my young mind.\u00a0 I felt totally justified and vindicated. \u201cThat\u2019ll teach him!\u201d I thought. \n

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No doubt the boss was badly shaken when the ketchup inventory didn\u2019t match up that night.\n

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To compound things, I couldn\u2019t just throw the ketchup away. I was too thrifty for that. I put the bottle of ketchup in the refrigerator at home and then had to explain to my astute mother how it just \u201cshowed up.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\n

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Have you ever done something wrong, and at the time, felt justified?<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

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