The Sterling Citizen

He is an upright and valued member of his 
community, let there be no doubt. He has 
worked hard all his life and done very well
thank you. And on the way to reaching his 
senior years this octogenarian has made many 
friends for he has never refused to lend himself 
to a favour for anyone who asked and many
according to his accounting had, have and 
ostensibly will, and he will never disappoint. 
He is himself  however a disappointed man 
that his qualities are so little recognized that 
he could be arrested and charged with a criminal 
offense. He whose sense of justice is so robust 
that he once on a highway signalled a police 
officer to pull over which he obligingly did
thinking his services were being called upon
whereupon the reason was revealed when he 
was then subjected to a bitter tirade that officers 
of the law are obligated to respect the law and
so why was he speeding? There is little doubt
that this story of upright justice found a ready
audience on more than one occasion. So it is 
really, really unfair, unjust, uncommonly nasty 
that just because he happened to be trucking a 
load of thousands of illegal cigarettes he was 
targeted, his truck impounded and he now faces 
trial. The moral of the story being that age alone 
does not confer wisdom for it is experience 
that age brings and those who choose not to 
use their experience as a lesson learned to 
garner wisdom are doomed to complain how 
unfair life is, from the ignominy of a prison cell.