Sean has had some good ideas over the years.

But using Canva was a really good one.

Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.

They looked good.

Really, really good.

Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.

Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.

Thanks, Canva. From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour.

I'm your host, Jay Allison, producer of this radio show, and this is an hour about rules.

When my oldest daughter was small, we were sitting at the dining table, and I felt a sharp

pain in my leg.

I said, Yao.

My daughter asked what happened, and her mother said, oh, I kicked daddy under the table

without meaning to.

My daughter's face lit up, and she asked, can I kick daddy under the table without meaning to. My daughter's face lit up and she asked, can I kick daddy under the table without

meaning to? There are lots of ways to bend the rules. In this hour, our storytellers will be questioning

the guidelines, official and self-imposed, the rules worth following, and the ones made to be broken.

We'll start in childhood, work our way through the hard-to- abide by rules of

teenagehood, and end with the rules we full-grown adults follow, or don't.

Our first teller, Stephen Michael Carr, found a creative way to free himself from his school's restrictive reading system.

He told this at an open mic story slam in Louisville, where The Moth is promotionally supported by Louisville Public Media.

Here's Stephen, live at the Moth.

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