When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathé News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been an anticlimax.
[Flannery O’Connor]

At Thirsty Minds in South Hadley, the following sign (orange with white painted letters, and a border of white dots) hangs from a ribbon by the coffee bar:

“Unsupervised children will be given an espresso and a free puppy.”