Dealing with a Busy-Body

Mildred, the local gossip and self-appointed monitor of the town's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business. Several people did not approve of her extra curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.

She made a mistake, however, when she accused Henry, who had recently moved to town, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. She emphatically told Henry and several others that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing.

Henry, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away. He didn't explain, defend, or deny. He said nothing in response. Later that evening, Henry quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house...walked home....and left it there all night.

HT to KP