People Are People

Once upon a time I was rabbi-ing on the seventh day of Pesach and right before the Omer in davening someone told me to be sure to announce that people could count with a bracha on the seventh night even if they had erred earlier and weren't counting with a bracha anymore. I told the fellow that this was a sophisticated detail of a Torah concept that wasn't the halacha according to everyone and that I wasn't going to announce it. He was disappointed,

Later that Yom Tov this gentleman got a stain on his shirt and immediately wet a napkin and began scrubbing it out. I thought about it and then told him that the Torah prohibition (melacha) that prohibits this activity on Shabbos applies on Yom Tov as well, although he perhaps didn't realize this. He told me that he doesn't keep everything.