Toadfish Monastery

I have a friend who was sexually harrassed by her step father a few years ago when she was only 15 or so. My friend told me about it a year or so ago, but it was only yesterday that she told me what her mother did about it.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Someone ELSE called the police and they attempted to arrest him, but she began denying it because her mother made her life a living hell. She was grounded from the computer for a year, and wasn't allowed to tell anyone. At all. Simply because her mother is an emtionally dependent woman who settled for a creepy, abusive man. She also threatened to kick my friend out of the house at fifteen.
I used to like her mother. She was a cool lady. But then my friend told me about this, and I don't like her anymore, obviously. I have trouble understanding why a mother would allow her oldest daughter to be harrassed by her husband, and do nothing about it.
I always wondered what her mother did about it, but I never asked because she didn't seem to want to talk about it. She said she is only still there (I advised her to get emancipated and move in with her stop mother) because she loves her mother and doesn't want to make things worse.
I'm sorry about the rant here, but this just makes me sick.

I've noticed a lot of us seem to have been raised catholic, whether you are or not now. I've been sort of wondering since before we moved over here from the Other Place.

We need a thread for this, since I don't see the Foghorn chamber in here.

Arg! The manager at the starbucks near my home was supposed to meet me for an interview today. He told me to show up between four and eight this evening. I came at about four thrity, and he wasn't there! Seriously, I had other things I wanted to do this afternoon, and I put them off for this, and he doesn't even show up!

Well, what is it?

Onion, pepper, tomato and roast beef stir-fry for me! Quite good.








_{edited by Aggie to remove the '2.0' in the title.}