“I didn’t do that! I’ll put it on my mother!”
“Well, you see, what happened…”
“Didn’t you see all those others doing it to?”
“But she was talking to me!”
“But he tried to trip me!”
“Well, he knocked my books off the desk.”
“No. No — that is not what I did.”
“What?!”
Sometimes, the excuses pile up. When they all come from one individual, someone who is always in the middle of things but always innocent, we see a life stretching out in front of this him that is so frustrating because he has such a warped perception of everything going on around him. We hope he can begin to look around and start taking some of the responsibility for the negative consequences he faces almost every day, but sometimes it seems the odds are against him.