Girl challenges Boy to list things Boy has done to make Girl feel special.
The first, titled "He," is the horrifying tale of a mentally challenged boy (referred to as "He" or "Him," a moniker that's clearly meant to remind us of Christ) who is exploited by his poor farm-locked family.
I'm not trying to justify our poor choice, but at least we regularly travelled with five or more passengers rather than just one mentally challenged boy racer in the front seat.
His voice would be the easiest voice in the world to dismiss – the voice of a very young "mentally challenged" boy from a poor family – yet it would be his voice that held a unique and necessary wisdom.
It certainly helped that pre-Titanic he'd already garnered a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination (for his searing performance of a mentally challenged boy in What's Eating Gilbert Grape?") and that immediately post-Titanic, he took roles in films as diverse as Woody Allen's Celebrity, Danny Boyle's The Beach and then, in his first collaboration with Martin Scorsese, Gangs of New York.
It stars Christina Ricci as Carolyn McDuffy, a pampered sorority girl who, as part of her house's good deeds campaign, takes a developmentally challenged boy, Pumpkin (Hank Harris), under her wing, training him for a Special Olympics-style event that the film calls "The Challenged Games".
In it, a small town is beset by a string of disturbing crimes, including a suicide, the torture of a mentally challenged boy and more.
The passengers of the bus include a boisterous group of youngsters, two Sikh men, an elderly Muslim couple, a young couple high on romance, a mentally challenged boy and his mother, and some card-playing men.
Significantly, a more recently identified risk of would-be school shooters was bullying and social rejection that challenged boys' masculinity, particularly in the form of "gay-baiting".
Amateur real tennis has a handicapping system in which the better player is docked points, so Fahey has been able to challenge boys and men since she was thirteen.
