Torturing Cousin Tim
Editors Note:  During the High School Years, our cousin Tim, stayed with us for one winter.  Tim stayed in the basement with Reggie, and we all got along, although Reggie had great fun tormenting Tim.  

One of the favorite things that Reggie liked to do, was mess with Tim’s cigarettes.  Reggie used to take toothpicks and jam them into the end of a cigarette, break off the toothpick and put this cigarette back into the pack.  Tim would end up smoking this cigarette and the taste would be horrible and he would realize that Reggie had tampered with the cigarette.  Reggie did not do this to every cigarette though, so Tim never knew which cigarette might be tampered with.  

Reggie repeatedly did this and it started to make Tim paranoid that his cigarettes were tampered with, because they usually were.  It got to the point where Tim would pick up his pack of cigarettes, Reggie would grin at Tim, and Tim would throw away the pack because he believed that Reggie’s grin indicated that the cigarettes had been tampered with, even though they hadn’t.

Reggie stayed in touch with Tim over the years and visited Tim and his family in Alberta several times.