Advice from a small town girl

Now here’s a Christmas story for you.

Just this past weekend, an elderly Odessa resident answered the phone to find a Canadian police sergeant on the other end of the line. He told her that her grandson had been picked up and was in jail. The story was that the grandson and two friends had been on their way to a funeral in Canada when they were stopped for a traffic violation.

The caller went on to say that drugs were found in the car, although none of them apparently belonged to the grandson.

By now it’s obvious to those reading this column just where this story is going.

But would you be abl...