I've never been to prison.
Actually, I have, I've been in the Ashtabula County Jail twice. Once when I was a little kid I got busted stealing a bouncy ball from Ben Franklin, and the second was a school field trip. Kind of a messed up field trip.
Mom was so pissed about the bouncy ball that she put me in the car and took me to BF to make give the ball back and apologize. I was a sobbing blithering idiot doing it, then she took me a block over to the jail and asked the nice guard to let me into a cell and scare the hell out of me. The guard, sharing my mother's appreciation of shock punishment for children, agreed.
I was taken into an empty cell near booking with a CO and read the riot act. I took it as well as a 10 year old could take it, still sobbing and being a blithering idiot. I'm sure Mom was just outside the door waiting and watching to make sure the big bad CO didn't go too far, at least I hope she would've been. I remember the guy was smoking and ashing in the stainless toilet. The walls were beige (of course) and I think the plastic mattress was blue, why I remember is beyond me.
It did scare the hell out of me, but I still tried shoplifting things over the years.
The f'ed up part is, the CO that had me in the cell ended up marrying Mom. You all know him as Larry.
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My mom also took me back to Silverman's to return a half eaten sucker & made me tell the manager what I did. She (thank God!) did not take it further.
Funny it turned out to be Larry!
larry used to cut my grampa's hair when he was a barber in conneaut. larry, btw. my gramps was never a barber.
i was in that jail, too. once for an equally screwed up field trip, and then some 10 or so some years later for a misunderstanding. a simple case of mistaken identity, as it were.
i mentioned to Larry that I thought about visiting the jail and he promptly reminded me that "it worked" and that I "didn't want to try and steal anymore, did I?"
I too enjoyed the visit with school. The late night visit with the guy what lifted me by my shorts, not so much. But it worked. I have noe drank booze under the age of 21 in over a decade.
I remember the school field trip to jail. We always used to tell Jerry that someday this was where he would live. Turned out we were wrong. It was Ryan who went there to live after high school. Oh well.
wait, i went there on a field trip, too. only when i was there they were watching price is right and playing connect four.
not the three hots and a cot like i had heard of. almomst amazing i haven't been there since.
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