A middle-aged man whose world has fallen apart is unexpectedly propositioned by a Danish student doing a six-month internship in the United States as part of her work on a Master's Degree in International Business and learns a valuable lesson about giving.
A professor of mathematics chances to see her 16-year-old son ejaculate while masturbating and realizes that her ignorance of male sexual function compels research into the subject.
Alex Winham, just coming out his shell after the painful end of a 20-year marriage, gets a lesson in trust he didn't know he was looking for. (Sorry, kids, this one's a grown-up story.)
One Friday, Mom came home from work in a stew, announced that she was fed up with being responsible, and declared that for the next nine days she was going to be a little girl who had no responsibilities at all. That sounded fine to me; Mom worked hard and deserved some time off. The hitch was that I had to be responsible for her.
I must have heard Mom say a jillion times, "The lessons learned best are the ones we figure out for ourselves." But sometimes the lesson we learn comes as a surprise.
An out-of-work engineer is greatly relieved to find a job after four months of searching--and is then accused of sexual assault during his first week with the company. And he didn't do anything! Who's brother? Who's sister?
