Your recent low grade on a history exam sends your step-mother into a tizzy. She reacts as if the letter "D" portends doom, debacle, disenfranchisement, and the destruction of your entire future. You cringe silently inside the station wagon while she gesticulates out the window, pointing at various individuals and demanding: "You don't want to end up like THAT, do you?" and "Do you want to work at THAT kind of job for the rest of your life?" These rhetorical questions require no answer although you would like to ask your step-mother, career housewife, why she feels entitled to pass judgment... Show more