In first grade, I had a run-in with a menacing-looking kid on the playground. I was sitting there drawing in a tiny sketchbook, when he walked up to me, unprokoved. He saw that I was drawing and decided he had to weigh in on it.
"What are you doing? Drawing?" I was too nervous to answer him. "That's stupid, nobody likes drawing." I was sure he was going to get physical with me, until he added "You should write stories about yourself, like your life, so people can learn more about you!" He reiterated his original point. "Nobody cares about drawing, that's stupid. Write about yourself!"
Then he got in real close, and this is the part I'll never forget: "And if you don't...
... I'll kill you."
Of course, young me didn't understand nuance so I started to write a quick bio out of fear, but now that I'm older, I can appreciate how fucking bizarre that encounter was.