One afternoon, his vandalisms and pranks had he and his mother escorted out of every shop they visited: in the supermarket, he ate from the aisles, spilt yoghurt, raced around on a shopping trolley, pickpocketed from customers, and climbed shelves; in the chemist's, he played with toothpaste, wrote with suncream and fed unwrapped lollipops to a baby; in the bakery, he stuffed a doughnut into a charity box; in the butcher's, he threw eggs; in the newsagents, he started arguments with staff over a comic book; and tripped over an elderly man in the bank's service queue.