For whatever reason, there was a brief period of time (I think during high school and college) when Cyn collected salt and pepper shaker sets. When I say collect, I mean that every once in a while, salt and pepper sets would find their way out of restaurants that she visited.
Although it was only an occasional act, our family would remind Cyn that stealing was wrong and that she really shouldn't be doing it. However, I believe that her collection still continued to grow. Even though we would discourage her from taking them, I think she was old enough that my parents were not necessarily in a place to strictly discipline her for her bad behavior.
I even have a random memory of our family being at a restaurant and our mom seemed to actually support Cyn's bad habit. I remember our mom exchanging a raised-eyebrow look with Cyn and glancing down to the salt and pepper shakers on the table, then back to her, as if to say, "Hey, look at those. Do you want those for your collection?"
I always admired Cyn for striving to do the right thing. So it's fun to think of those rare occasions when she strayed from that, and engaged in a little bit of mischief.
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