James was twelve years old. One day, walking home from school, he saw that new posters had been put up everywhere. On lamp posts, on walls and in the shop windows. They were bright and colourful and they announced that a travelling show would visit town for two weeks. Cowboy Girls - The Hottest Show on Road the posters proclaimed. And there were pictures of beautiful horses and young suntanned, blond girls.
That night at dinner he asked his parents if he could go and see the show. "No!" his dad said, "it's not something for you. You would see things you ought not see."
James, of course, was disappointed, and for the next couple of days he pleaded with his parents for a ticket to the show. But his dad was adamant: "No, you would see things you ought not see."
However, being a resourceful young man, James managed to get a free entrance by helping carrying seat and benches into the big tent, when the travelling show arrived in town. And he went to see the show. Only trouble was, that one of the neighbours had seen him go in and had told his parents.
Dinners were quite silent for a couple of days. One evening after dinner his mother, however, said that maybe it wasn't all that bad after all. "And what did you see, that you ought not see?", she asked with the curious smile of a mother following her son's advance from a child to an adolescent.
James looked down. "I saw Dad", he said quitely.
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