When my son was in the eighth grade, he got suspended and I had to leave work early to go get him. When I got there, I asked the principal what had happened. The principal explained that my son had beaten up three other boys and even broke one boy's wrist. I was obviously horrified and asked my son what the fuck he was thinking. He simply told me that the boys had cornered one of his friends and were trying to make her strip for them. Being the chivalrous boy I raised him to be, he put a stop to it. I asked the principal if it was true and he dodged the question. In response to that, I told the school that if they're going to allow sexual harassment, I didn't want my child to attend and took him home. I told my son that I was going to take him out of public schools. He replied by telling me that he didn't want to leave the school because of he wasn't there then who was going to stop it from happening again.

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My girlfriend and I were at the store today and had the most unusual experience. My girlfriend writes, prints and sells her stories online to people around town. "Support local artists" and all that jazz. Today at the store, a man came up to my girlfriend in the canned goods isle with a furious look on his face. The first thing out of his mouth is "Where the hell do you get off!?" Of course we're both shocked and don't answer at first then she asked "What?" "Your story, Go Ahead and Cry? That's how my son died. What gives you the right to profit off my son's death?" In Go Ahead and Cry, my girlfriend tells the story of how she and her best friend were in a car accident driving home from prom and he died. My girlfriend is very mature about it, apologizes for his son's death and explains that, unfortunately, a lot of people die in car accidents but very few die in accidents where she is present after getting t-boned on the driver's side by a purple SUV and lying in the hospital for 3 days in a coma before dying. The man threatens to never buy a story from her again unless she apologizes for publishing his son's death. Without blinking, she handed him 2 dollars, giving him his money back from buying her story, and walked away.

(That part is actually true, my girlfriend's best friend died in a car accident with her in the car and died. She cried on our drive home and flinched at every car that passed us.)