Charlie has been really interested in US Marshalls (after reading a book about Bass Reeves) and was so happy to go to the courthouse so grandpa Hon John could show him around and introduce him to Marshalls.
On they way home we had the following conversation:
Charlie “Judges are some of the most important people in the world. I could help Grandpa John be a judge. I know fair. I know suspicious. I know evidence. I saw a guy smoking a pipe. “
ALB “True. Judges are important because not only do they help punish bad guys as you know, but they make sure punishments are fair and that only the people guilty of doing something bad are punished. Some people are accused of doing something wrong but didn’t actually do it and judges make sure those people aren’t punished. Have you ever been wrongfully accused?”
Charlie “Yes. But bad guys so go to jail.”
ALB “Yes bad guys go to jail or doing some other sort of punishment.”
Charlie “Oh I know what you’re talking about. Like if they don’t go to jail they might have to do something like clean up or work in childcare. “
What kind of childcare workers have you seen, Charlie, that give you this idea?
Next day Charlie and Teddy are fighting in the backseat of the car
Charlie “Teddy!!!! Stop it!!!!! You are assaulting me.”
Teddy “No, you are assaulting me. And you could go to jail. That would actually be sad.”
Or I suppose go into childcare.