Remember what the sheriff said: no more shootin' till the sun goes down

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Ted and Little Ted went out to visit Buddy again on Wednesday night - WITHOUT ME! They have been helping him set up his new computer with particular emphasis on synchronizing it with Buddy's new PDA cellphone thingy. They have almost succeeded in that everything, except outgoing email from the PDA, works. It's probably going to take another Wednesday night visit to fix that final problem but - "confidence is high" (War Games). HELLO; I would like to go too you know!
Anyway, Ted was telling me, they went to Dairy Queen for dinner and Little Ted had popcorn chicken. He was sitting there in the corner booth noisily eating his chicken and talking to his daddy when the local Sheriff and his wife came in.
Little Ted became quite quiet. As he sat down the Sheriff looked at Little Ted and said " don't I know you?"
Well Ted was wondering, he's only 5 years old and he's already known to the Sheriff, what is it going to be like when he's a teenager?
Needless to say Little Ted was only "known" from school and church. Nevertheless the rest of dinner was eaten somewhat quietly as Little Ted fixated on the Sheriff's gun.