Almost lifted one from Sturgeon Falls

Last weekend, I was in Sturgeon Falls at a high school (30-minutes north of North Bay). Nice town and everyone's fiercely Franco-Ontarian. Meaning that their first language is french, which is weird living in Ontario.

At this high school while in the physical education office, I saw a red poppy stuck to a bulletin board. For just a split second, I thought about lifting it (a more elegant way to say steal). I looked at it and looked at it and was wrestling with my desire to have a red poppy again and the fact that it's wrong to steal.

After a few seconds, I decided not to take what isn't mine. What stopped me? One, I'm a Christian. Second, I thought of karma (watch one of my favourite shows My Name Is Earl to see what I mean). Third, there was a photo of happy children stuck on the bulletin board right beside the poppy. After seeing their smiling faces, I knew that lifting it would be wrong.

So, I tearfully said goodbye to the poppy and left the phys ed office. I'll get my replacement poppy some other way.