Anthony has lately begun to take items lying on counter tops and put them into the garbage. That would be fine if the items were meant for the garbage.

I was to go out today to pick up Anthony's prescription refill and discovered that the medicine bottle could not be found. My wife suspected that Anthony had thrown it away and, after some searching, verified that to be the case. He combined this new obsession with the longstanding one of sticker removal, so that the bottle was useless for refill purposes. We located another prescription paper to take to the pharmacy.

Later this evening, I opened the garbage pail and saw a $20 bill lying on top of the pile! Anthony had opened an envelope intended for our daughter's birthday, removed the card, and evidently viewed the green paper with the numbers on it as superfluous.