When I was a kid, big enough to be dropped off with friends at the local mall, my mom warned me to always go into public restrooms with friends because a local gang initiation was to cut off the penis of kids they found alone. As a young boy, you’re never going to admit you’re scared to your friends, and you’re not going to ask for a bud…
When I was a kid, big enough to be dropped off with friends at the local mall, my mom warned me to always go into public restrooms with friends because a local gang initiation was to cut off the penis of kids they found alone. As a young boy, you’re never going to admit you’re scared to your friends, and you’re not going to ask for a buddy to be lookout while you piss, so every trip to the public toilets felt riskier than riding my bike down a dirt ramp path with no helmet. Eventually, I realized my mom was full of well-intentioned shit. Like, if she really believed it, why would she ever let me out of her sight? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mutilated-boy/
But now that I’m a parent?!?!?! My fear is that I’m going to hear some terrifying report and dismiss it as an urban legend, laugh off something too sinister to take serious, and then discover that unheeded horror turns out to be true when it’s my kids in my news.
When I was a kid, big enough to be dropped off with friends at the local mall, my mom warned me to always go into public restrooms with friends because a local gang initiation was to cut off the penis of kids they found alone. As a young boy, you’re never going to admit you’re scared to your friends, and you’re not going to ask for a buddy to be lookout while you piss, so every trip to the public toilets felt riskier than riding my bike down a dirt ramp path with no helmet. Eventually, I realized my mom was full of well-intentioned shit. Like, if she really believed it, why would she ever let me out of her sight? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mutilated-boy/
But now that I’m a parent?!?!?! My fear is that I’m going to hear some terrifying report and dismiss it as an urban legend, laugh off something too sinister to take serious, and then discover that unheeded horror turns out to be true when it’s my kids in my news.