OK, this has left me feeling very patronised and emasculated, and enough people are just saying "You're a pussy, get over it" that I think I'll change the OP here.
Here's the new question: "What is the worst thing you have caught a parent doing?"
But feel free to offer your opinion on the original topic if you actually have something to say.
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OK, this is what happened:
I was staying home from school and I was downstairs and David (my step-dad) was up-stairs. I went to go up to ask him something, he was in his room (I assumed he was working). I knock, a pause.
I wait.
I wait.
I wait.
And then, "Come in!"
I step inside, just in time to see a picture disappear off-screen.
A picture of a woman...
...with her top-off.
At first I thought, "yeah, relax, all guys do it, right?"
Then, "I wonder what I should do, should I tell mum?"
Now I can't even look at him in the face. I hate talking to him. It doesn't even feel right to be in the same room as him!
What should I do??? HELP!
(Sad that I had to drop the effortlessly emotionless candor that is The Escapist identity, but whatever.)
~EDIT~
OK, people are getting the wrong idea. it's not that there's anything wrong with a guy having a wank, it's just... he's my step-dad! He's married to my mother. I mean, is she OK with it? If it were anyone else, my friend, my dad, my cousin, it would be fine! It;s more about a sense of betrayal than anything else (I have a tingling feeling that no one but those who have had this happen to them could understand...).
~EDIT~
Look, I'm not trying to troll. Here's the question: In a situation like this, what should I do?
Here's the new question: "What is the worst thing you have caught a parent doing?"
But feel free to offer your opinion on the original topic if you actually have something to say.
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OK, this is what happened:
I was staying home from school and I was downstairs and David (my step-dad) was up-stairs. I went to go up to ask him something, he was in his room (I assumed he was working). I knock, a pause.
I wait.
I wait.
I wait.
And then, "Come in!"
I step inside, just in time to see a picture disappear off-screen.
A picture of a woman...
...with her top-off.
At first I thought, "yeah, relax, all guys do it, right?"
Then, "I wonder what I should do, should I tell mum?"
Now I can't even look at him in the face. I hate talking to him. It doesn't even feel right to be in the same room as him!
What should I do??? HELP!
(Sad that I had to drop the effortlessly emotionless candor that is The Escapist identity, but whatever.)
~EDIT~
OK, people are getting the wrong idea. it's not that there's anything wrong with a guy having a wank, it's just... he's my step-dad! He's married to my mother. I mean, is she OK with it? If it were anyone else, my friend, my dad, my cousin, it would be fine! It;s more about a sense of betrayal than anything else (I have a tingling feeling that no one but those who have had this happen to them could understand...).
~EDIT~
Look, I'm not trying to troll. Here's the question: In a situation like this, what should I do?