Big Ideas

We got this guy here in Harper, Leb Putz, who comes up with new ideas all the time, ideas about how to get rich while improving the lot of his fellow man. Yesterday, he was talking about this new project he was working on, a self-serve pawn shop. Somebody asked him how it would work and he said it would use those scanners like they have down at the Piggly Wiggly for people to check out by themselves. I asked how the scanners would work on things that didn't have the little bars and numbers on them. Leb said the new machines did not require any of that. He gave the example of the lady who accidentally ran her diamond ring across the screen and had $25,000 added to her grocery bill. I reckon y'all have heard that old joke before, but seems Leb took it for real. I started to tell him it wasn't true but thought better. Who knows, maybe he'll figure one of these things out some day and end up as a very rich humanitarian. I ain't gonna be the one who discourages him.