Ross

Ross was walking home from school one day when he saw some graffiti under a canal bridge about his mother. It said she was a turkey whore, who would give blow jobs for £5 a pop. Next to it was a crude scrawl of her face, complete with the baggy skin under her neck that prompted the turkey reference. She wasn't a turkey, she had just lost a lot of weight recently which made the skin saggy. Ross was disgusted and planned to return and paint over the graffiti to protect his mum’s honour and his own embarrassment

On the way home from school the next day Ross hung back until the other kids were well on their way and he stopped at the bridge to overspray the graffiti with some cans of paint he had found in the garage. Unfortunately he became too absorbed in covering the graffiti, attempting to create the outline of a narrowboat, in keeping with the surroundings. Ross failed to notice the approach of a local PCSO. Ross' justifications in covering the other graffiti fell on deaf ears and he was summoned before a magistrate’s court and sentenced to 16 hours community service, clearing up graffiti. Despite the injustice of it, his mother said she was proud that he had tried to defend her.

Those 16 hours were some of the worst of Ross' young life. He didn't fit in with the others serving their sentence and had to endure their taunting, all whilst being berated by a hateful shrivel of a man who got his kicks by ordering them around. After the 2 days were up Ross was stinking, covered in municipal grey paint and with the last insults still ringing in his ears was only too glad to return home to some peace and quiet.

Ross came unannounced through the front door and into his lounge, only to be confronted by the sight of his mum on her knees in front of the magistrate who had sentenced him only the week before. Sometimes you just can't win.