George Saunders

That's so sweet, though, that that's your greatest sin.

But I was the same.

I was also very self-regulated.

But sometimes that got in my way.

So my dad had a chicken restaurant in Chicago, a franchise, and I was his delivery boy.

So one time we got an order late at night, and he said, you know, the customer's always right, take the order.

And I went out, and the address was fictional.

I couldn't find it.

It was between two existing houses.

So I'm standing there stunned for a minute, and suddenly this guy comes out of the bushes.

And pushes me down and grabs the package and runs off.

And so the good boy in me was so kind of macho about that.

I felt so humiliated that my family's restaurant had been robbed because of my, you know.

So I put out some feelers and I was pretty well connected and I figured out who did it.

There was a group of four young men who had conspired to do this.

And so this is what I got away with.

I called – and in two cases went to the house of these guys and said, I challenge you – this is how stupid I was.

No.

Yeah, to a – perhaps you haven't read Pushkin, my friend.

But I said, yeah, come to this place.