Quite awhile ago, I was heading back to the Northcrest location with a co-worker when we spotted this poor unfortunate soul sweltering in the mid-summer heat. You can see the Onyx sign just over his shoulder. I parked, grabbed my camera and returned on foot where I encountered his father standing nearby in the shade of the Marta stop. After reading the sign, I managed to partially conceal my amusement enough to ask the man if he would mind my taking a picture. “Hell no, I don’t mind, Take as many as ye’ like!” Amazingly, his sign describes a trouble combination I actually did not achieve. It certainly took me back to a tumultuous time when my father excercised similarly rigid disciplines. I commended the man on his creative punishment citing similar father/son interactions. He saw my Onyx shirt and asked if I owned the company behind his son. When I replied, he said to his boy “You see that? This guy did dumb stuff like you and he owns that company over there. You wanna grow up and do something or you wanna go to jail?” I told the kid to hang in there and walked away feeling a little weird but laughing to myself regardless. He was out there all afternoon - more than five hours. Good luck to you Pot Kid!

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