Emily Strange

I work with a girl named Emily. She is 17 I believe, and probably the most sheltered person I have ever met. She says "In the name of gosh" and says "poop" instead of shit or crap. She refuses to swear, and the one time she accidentally called someone "gay" she ran away giggling and apologized profusely. The strangest things about this girl by far are A: she cannot count change right to save her life, B: she claims to be allergic to carbon, and C: she has a metal plate in her head and doesn't know why. She told a coworker this one day, and we joked that we should stick magnets to her head to see if it's true. Well, we did. I overheard them talking about it and ran over to see her stick a refrigerator magnet to her forehead. I was shocked. It was true; the magnet stuck. We started asking her about how it happened, and she said she never knew about it until one day when she was a kid, she was running magnets across her head and she felt the magnetic pull. She has no idea what is in her head because her parents never told her! What kind of parent doesn't tell their 17 year old child, at some point, that they have metal in their head!? She tells me then that it happened when she was five and she and her brother were being babysat by some preteens who decided they wanted to go see their "boyfriends". These girls strapped her baby brother to a changing table in the dark and tried to chase her into the room with him. She thought it was a game, ran away, and eventually straight into the corner of a wall. This split her head open. She also told me when she was little she bit through her lip and her parents waited an HOUR AND A HALF to take her to the hospital. You can see that there is something wrong with her lip still. What is wrong with this family? To me, letting this child out into the world with no preparation after a life like that is near the level of the family that chained their daughter to a toilet and never even taught her to speak.
Well, off to work now. Can't wait to see what happened tonight...