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Bozo's Obstacle18The teenager took advantageof his absence to scrawl %u201cFake%u201din front of %u201cOriental Rug%u201d,and disappear with his friends.Hauling the boards back overhis shoulders, the old manwas none the wiser, and paradedin the altered signs all afternoon.He was pleased at the suddengood humor of the normallycranky drivers inchingup the traffic-saturated road.The next day he wasn%u2019t at his post,nor the next. On the third daya fretful, elderly woman bore the sign,the original message restored.The old man was in the hallwayof a cardiac unit, waiting to berolled into an operating room.He blamed no one for anything.