Dear Bob (Ford),

Thank you for your humorous program (at the Shepherd's Center of Columbia) on the crazy things criminals do. I think you probably have material for another column using the armored truck heist. My husband said he had never read your column. He couldn't wait for our weekly copy of The Columbia Star to arrive but went out and got one. Dorcas Giles, our executive director (of The Shepherd's Center of Columbia) lives in Irmo and is not a regular reader but said she was going to start reading it. Your readership has increased at least by two, and I imagine several more.

My favorite was not about criminals but about your permanent record. My son could never shut up in elementary grades; his teacher was always telling me, "I hate for this to go down in his permanent record." So I really related to that.

Betty M. Layson