Mildred, the church gossip,
and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals kept sticking her nose into
other people's business.
Several members did not
approve of her extra-curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain
their silence.
She made a mistake, however,
when she accused George, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his
old pickup parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon.
She emphatically told George
and several others that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing.
George, a man of few words, stared
at her for a moment and just turned and walked away. He didn't explain, defend,
or deny. He said nothing.
Later that evening, George
quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house... and left it there all
night.
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