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Cake day: February 15th, 2025

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  • Last year on the 4th, I was walking home from the big fireworks show, and I saw a teenager on a scooter, who was briefly crouching down and not being safe. But he came up beside a lady and surprised her, and she swatted at him and tried to push him over, which would have crashed him into several people walking. More than just a startle response, and the kid stopped, looked back, angry - but he was a black teenager and there’s this white lady and her beefy white boyfriend/husband staring him back, so he turns and disappears back into the crowd.

    And I’m instantly furious.

    “That’s assault,” I told her.

    “Mind your own fucking business” she says. Several other people are watching.

    Thankfully my husband and her husband pulled us in different directions and the crowd separated us.

    But I was so fucking angry, and that lady looked like she had started a fight or three in her life. Her boyfriend looked like he wasn’t happy to be there in that moment.

    So yes, but it has to be something serious.