I Sometimes Become Annoyed with Parables and Other “Meaningful” Stories

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Many years ago, up at my mother-in-law’s house in northeastern Pennsylvania, I heard a brief story that I thought was kind of funny:

Down at the Procter & Gamble paper mill, there was an employee (call him Charlie) who worked the night shift. It’s one of those secure facilities and all, so there’s a security officer on duty as employees come…