New Bike
10-year old Devin Maguire held onto his BMX handle bars and stared at my new bike, “Your dad got that bike from a thrift store.”
“No he didn’t!” I said.
“Yes he did. I can tell.”
“No, he didn’t.”
“Yeah, cause there’s marks on it.”
“He got it from K-Mart.”
“Okay, which one?”
“The one down the street.”
“I know all the bikes at K-Mart. I didn’t see that one there.”
“Well, that’s where he got it from.”
“Did he tell you he got it from there?”
“No.”
“Then how do you know?”
“Cuz, my parents don’t shop at thrift stores!”
When my dad came back from work, he told me that he bought the bike from a thrift store. The same store we’d been to several times that year.
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