Truth helps us; truth comforts us; truth warns us. The truth will set you free.

Despite its benefits, though, we often like to avoid the truth. Why? Because the truth can hurt.

How you deal with the truth and/or hurt can show your own level of maturity.

Tonight I head to bed with the satisfaction of knowing that at least one local supermarket employee has grown a little today. She faced the obvious hurt of the truth and is better for it. She now knows that canned baby corns (aisle 7) are not the same as green peppercorns in brine (which, apparently, are not available at all).

I learned some truth, too: Peppercorns? In brine? Boy, am I snooty.