Continuing on with stories from my freshman year I was in an Speech 101 class where we had to deliver a speech about our childhood growing up.
The girl who went before me told a said story about being raised by her grandmother and divorced parents. I went up right after her and said I was more fortunate not to be raised in an unfunctional family.
The girl took offense by this comment (though none was intended) and the teacher gave me an F.
I then was given the chance to do an apology speech the next class to get an A for my first speech.
So I got up and apologized. The girl stood up and said "THANK YOU. Because I was happy growing up with my grandmother and my parents were happy living apart from eachother!!"
Being a little hostel at me, ruffled my feathers so I responded. "So if you lived with your grandmother and your parents lived in different towns....that's not really the definition of a functional family wouldn't you agree?"
I was told by the teacher to sit down and had an F to start the semester off with.
It was a great year.
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