Sometimes life lessons are hard to swallow. If the case of Montgomery County shutting down kids selling lemonade for charity, these kids have learned a hard but valuable lesson ("Montgomery County shuts kids' lemonade stand," June 17).
That lesson, kids, is if you're going to do business in Montgomery County, you need to make sure that county officials get their cut!
Local residents know better. That's why they don't get hassled for gouging golf fans at $50-to-$60 a car for what would normally be illegal parking on their lawns. They coughed up a special "fee" to county officials for the sheriff to look the other way when the U.S. Open came to town.
So there you go, kids, you've learned a lesson about how your government works. You need to "grease" the wheels of justice to keep things running smoothly.
Tony LaMantia, Chicago