He noticed me! He really noticed me!

Chapter 99: I Hope @guest_ Senpai Will Notice Me

@bethorien Trust me, l still have mental scars. And you’re gonna need to sit down once I tell you that college makes you spend 4 years writing 20-page essays only for you to start working and get told your 20-word messages need to get to the point.

Diagonal. From upper left to lower right. Because if you made me write something so long that I had to print and staple it, then you deserve to be punished.

@nelson Point well taken. But maybe Nintendo was the driver of the car that killed him. *conspiracy theory sadly intensifies*

@meatball2012 Based on my friend’s explanation, I don’t think the issue is whether or not people are polite. It’s the frequency of the requests and that they’re made by total strangers with whom she has no connection. So, I tried to put myself in her shoes. Let’s say that ‘every so often’ means twice a week (but she has a lot of eye-catching, curly hair so it could happen more often). That would mean over 100 strangers ask to touch her hair each year. To put it another way, imagine if 100 strangers asked - politely - to touch your elbow or your knee every year. It’s a benign body part. But have strangers asked to touch anything on your body 100 times this year? Would that start to get on your nerves after a while? Would you think ‘I don’t ask to touch your hair so why do you feel like it’s okay to touch mine? And why should I have to change the way my hair grows to stop this?’ I can only guess but I imagine that this might be how she feels about it.

The good news is that after the wasp attack and a week in the hospital with a team of 100 specialists devising a plan for his care after the skewer lodged precariously close to two major arteries and pierced his jaw muscles so that he couldn’t take a breathing tube during surgery, his friends never told the password to the treehouse so that girls would still have to keep out.

I would use a meaningful percentage of the $5 million that I won to replace all of her lost teeth.

I once asked a black female friend something like this and she said because it’s an intrusion of personal space by a complete stranger and, to try to quote, ‘Imagine if everywhere you went some random person always asked to touch your hair. You’d get pretty tired of it. We [black women] are not petting zoos.’ I realize one voice doesn’t speak for the masses but I see her point.