Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History: a crooked family history

The Story

'On a summer night when she was five years old, Helene Stapinski watched out her kitchen window as her Grandpa Beansie was carted off to jail for the last time. Beansie (so nicknamed because he had stolen a crate of beans as a child) had spent the better part of that day in the Majestic Tavern, a dive bar on the ground floor of the Stapinskis' apartment building. As the afternoon wore on, Beansie's usual ranting turned mean.