A/N-This one is about T. Tommy Reed, a former cellmate of Anthony's that made his life extra miserable during his 'unfortunate incarceration'. Anthony said at one time T. Tommy had checked out a book on proper etiquette manners and had
stabbed a inmate for serving him from the wrong side, don't you just wish they had shown that scene?
Tommy had done some thinking and he knew that when he got out, he had to do something different than what he was doing, he had to get sophisticated and charming to scam those people and maybe not get sent back here, to jail. So he had come to the prison library and he was searching for just the right book.
He was in the adult non fiction and he got to thinking….he remembered hearing that Emily Post wrote some books…..he looked and looked until he came to the P's, Pa….Po! Bingo! He had found it! He checked the book, really two books on etiquette. The librarian looked at him strange but quit under the glare of T. Tommy. T. Tommy then took the books back to his cell and somehow he got to reading more and more and actually enjoying the books! He had even started practicing some of what he was learning in the books, such as opening the doors for 'ladies', saying thank you, which fork to use for what. But the prison only had one type of fork, but he would give a encouraging talk to the warden.
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One day, he was in line with the rest of society's rejects, waiting for food. He went to go sit down at the table and he was happily eating the reasonably good food they gave them. This inmate was coming down asking the guys if anybody wanted seconds of this or that, Yeah, T. Tommy wanted some more mashed potatoes so he asked the guy for some.
That poor boy didn't read Emily Post so he had served T. Tommy from the wrong side….T. Tommy didn't take that too kindly to the boy doing that so to teach him a lesson, he had stabbed him in the right side to remember.
The boy lived and T. Tommy had served 5 months in solitary confinement but it was worth it because when he got out, Emily Post was the most read and checked out book that library had seen in months!