Two Truths and a Lie

Today I did a terrible thing to one of my friends.

There is an episode of Reno 911 where two of the police officers encounter a man in a milkshake costume. They don't like him so they start to beat the living shit out of him. The milkshake man is dazed and stumbling around, which causes him to fall into the street. To further his bad luck, he stumbled in front of an oncoming bus and is killed on impact.

I threw my friend in front of a bus today.

I'm a chief counsel for a criminal defense clinic which puts me in a supervisory position. All of the chiefs and the professor of the clinic meet every week to discuss issues with the clinic. One of the subjects today was whether or not the chiefs should still go to the courthouse in the morning to help the current students. My comments on this is where I went completely wrong.

I was trying to point out that our involvement there has become pointless. In large part because we've become crutches for these students who can easily do this on their own. Not stopping there, I chose to give an example of a stupid ass question one of the students asked me. That wasn't good enough either. I revealed the name of the student.

This is a problem because the clinic is graded on a curve. Now the professor has a negative impression of one of the students because of my stupid comment. My point was not to call out anyone as being worse than others but to point out they are all unable to perform to their potential because we're there. Instead I name someone and now she's in the shit with the professor.

The slap in the face of this all is that she's one of my friends.