[Gay State Conservative]

By the time I was in 2nd grade, I knew better than to rifle through other people's things, and I had been taught that stealing was wrong.

When I was 7 (1st grade) I found a knife that my much older brother had and brought it to school with me.In doing so I was not intending to "steal" it or to do *anyone* any harm with it.I can't recall how I found it...I suppose I might have been "rifiling".I had never seen anything like it and my little 7 year old mind was fascinated by it.There are certain steps that one must take to prevent curious,"clever" kids like myself from doing such things.

[marktwain]

When I was 7 (1st grade) I found a knife that my much older brother had and brought it to school with me.In doing so I was not intending to "steal" it or to do *anyone* any harm with it.I can't recall how I found it...I suppose I might have been "rifiling".I had never seen anything like it and my little 7 year old mind was fascinated by it.There are certain steps that one must take to prevent curious,"clever" kids like myself from doing such things.

I hope that you are right. I suspect the knife was in your own home. Did you go searching through other peoples possessions when you were in someone elses home when you were 8?