Sobering Moment

Have you ever doing something and then realized "Oh man, what have I done?" I'm going to tell you a story where I had this exact same feeling. The story has no moral in the way most people think of it. It doesn't teach you not to touch hot things or to respect your elders, but it teaches something much more valuable.
The beginning of this story actually started about a half year ago when I worked for a new restaurant called The Mockingbird Grill. I had met few people there at work that I liked, but I finally met an assistant cook named Maryland. Maryland is a 19 year-old black woman who is putting herself through college. I actually understood her when she spoke unlike the rest of my co-workers there spoke. So she served as my translator and we became friends. …