Sometimes I have to have a Come to Jesus talk with a student employee when they have disciplinary issues with the university or police. I try to share with them reassuring personal experience by telling them I've been in trouble with the law, too, and that it's important to use this as a learning experience, refocus, and move on.
I don't elaborate that my experience was being followed home by a cop when I threw pebbles at his police cruiser when I was six, upset that I couldn't hang out with friends across the street because I had chicken pox. That's the kind of rep you can only earn on the streets.
That Stumpy is a bad mother....