Paper Route StoriesPeeping TomI had heard rumors about a Peeping Tom in our city but it was confirmed when John Judge took me aside and asked me if I had ever seen anybody sneaking around houses or looking in bedroom windows when I was delivering the papers.
I got the impression he thought it might be me at first, but I don’t think he thought so after we talked.
He said there were a lot of pissed off people (paraphrase, he probably said “mad people”.) and that I had to make sure I didn’t cut between houses and that I stayed on the sidewalks as much as possible. And that I had to tell him if I ever saw anybody suspicious.
One thing that got my attention was that he said there were some men around town taking turns watching for this creep and they said they were going to shoot him if they saw him looking in any windows.
I mostly doubted that, but then again, I did know a few war vets that might just be ornery enough to do just that.
I don’t know that they ever caught the culprit but after a few weeks it seems he gave it up and the gossip died down.
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