Poking About Your Business

(I am called into my school’s principal office at high school because a few weeks ago I had poked a friend who turned out to have a mental condition that caused him to lash out and pull another girl’s hair. At this point my fingernails have gotten long and I have had no time to cut them back.)

Principal: “So, why did you poke him?”

Me: “It’s just something that I do to friends often as a joke and they do it back. I didn’t know it would bother him that much.”

Principal: “I see you have long fingernails. Do you do cocaine? Is that why you harass people?”

(I was utterly shocked into silence for the next five minutes while I was lectured on assault and drugs before being let go with a warning “this time.”)