A Conversation I'd rather not have overheared
Gents my age seem invisible to young ladies - or assumed hard of hearing.
A young lady at an adjacent table in a coffee shop was discussing her involuntary sexual encounter at a party with another young lady sat on the bench next to me. Not having been invited to the conversation, I decided remaining apparently oblivious with my nose in the paper would occasion the least distress at a difficult time.
She showered for two hours after.
Then a friend advised her to go to Emerg.
She didn't know what she wanted to happen and still doesn't.
She cried for two weeks.
Her family doctor when apprised of the incident stated that the lesson was to leave a party immediately the first bottle of beer was opened.
Now she is concerned that if she does not take it to the police, nothing will stop the perp from victimising somebody else.
It makes me wonder if a civil suit might be a better way to get even than a criminal proceeding where the matter is taken completely out of the victim's hands.