Thank you for reading and the kind words!

My privilege was that this incident couls be brushed off as a one off by me and I didnt have to go back to it..akin to a rich person's privilege of growing up in a nice neigjborhood and being able to avoid shady ones, vs. a kid who is a good kid but is born in a crappy crime ridden neighborhood n can not jst avoid it. I do explain in the very last part of the story.