Thank You Ma'am

Author's note: This piece is a short response to "Thank You Ma'am"  by Langton Hughes.  The prompt to writing this was "What if this happens…".  I wrote about what would have happened if Mrs. Jones brought Roger to the police.    

After reading "Thanks You Ma'am", I thought "What if Mrs. Jones took Roger to the police instead of her house".  If this happened Mrs. Jones probably did not want him to be her son anymore, or perhaps Mrs. Jones was not in a very good mood when Roger tried to steal her pocket book, and Roger trying to steal just made her mood go from mad to extremely furious.  Once Roger and Mrs. Jones got to the police station, Mrs. Jones might have told the police man that she wanted him in jail no matter how far or hard she had to push it she wanted him in jail.  I mean just picture that sight of a larger woman with a teenaged boy dangling by his neck walking into the police station.

After about a year or so when ever Roger got out of jail he saw Mrs. Jones walking down the street.  He went up to her and she stepped back swinging her large purse ready to hit him but Mrs. Jones was presently surprised that Roger came up to her to say thank you.  He knew that it was the right thing to do at that time and he learned from his mistakes.