Okay, two things,
1-When I was in cadets, I had been told to give a brief speech to the other kids (who were just about to get their learners) on the dangers of speeding. This speech was mostly jokey, because that's how I teach and it ended with 'And if you crash your car over the speed limit, you'll look like a total cock head and still not get to the movie on time' one of the girls burst into tears and ran out. Turned out her brother had just died in a car accident.
then, on black saturday, our unit was only a few ks away from the fires, so we were all in a bit of shock, so I wasn't really thinking straight, so my lesson ended with, alright, i've taught you enough, piss of back to you homes. That same girl ran off crying, turned out she had just lost her house.
THEN, in a lesson about safety with batteries, I made a crack about being on fire and people thinking that you were simply waving hello, same bloody thing and the officer comes by to tell me that the girls uncle was in hospital with severe burns or something.
I was frustrated and so maybe I snapped a little bit, because I said, 'Fuck it, I'm not gonna pussyfoot around every potential little thing because the sound of piss hitting a urinal reminds her of the time she almost drowned!' I did appologise afterwards, but I had gotten some pretty stern warnings about the other two incidents and so was fairly frustrated.
2-I am very good at lying, I don't want to blow my own trumpet but it is true, but when it is something as easy as convincing south africans or yanks to spend weeks at a time with their necks slathered in toothpaste and vegimite to ward off drop bears, well its like kicking a drunk baby.