You know, I'm pretty sure he did know better. Boys who just turned 15 don't look like adults. A boy waiting for his parents to pick him up from his supermarket job is clearly not an adult.

And, you know, if he'd wanted to hook up with an adult, even a young adult, he would have gone to one of those bars in that community directory.

I think by the 1990s we had mostly stopped calling predators like him chicken hawks, but that's what he was – a mindful predator cruising a young teenager in the meat aisle.

I guess it's not so much a matter of he should have known better. He should have done better.

I hope you tell yourself that.