The Buckets by Greg Cravens for August 27, 2021

I was a middle child. I would have freakin’ burned out my phone with a “tattletale” app

We had a tattletale mountain. Whenever we wanted to tattle, my Ma would say, “Go tell it on the mountain.”

Don’t encourage him, Eddie.

My brothers and I didn’t really tattle on each other much

Much better to hold the information for blackmail

And now, that it is on the net, it’ll haunt you forever. You’re gonna regret it whenever you’ll apply for a job anytime in the future. Even when trying to get a bed in the hospice.

So Eddie still hasn’t figured out how right Toby is. The main advantage of the tattle app is it gives Eddie a way to release his tattletale urges without bothering Mom and Dad. Oh, and it saves paper too.