What makes me sad....

Writing beautiful code or fixing some coding probem and not being able to run up to any friend at random and go 'LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL CODE!'/'LOOK HOW I FIX!' and have them share in my happiness. It's like building a beautiful house that not everybody can see :(

Think it Might be Fear of Reprisal?

Why I don't like my criminal justice textbook (The Criminal Justice System - Burns):

Quote from page 5 (minus source citations):

"Other incident-specific factors such as fear of reprisal may influence victim reporting. (Skip one sentence.)
Fear of reprisal, or retaliation for reporting a crime, influences some reporting practices. Some crimes (particularly violent crime) are not reported out of a victim's fear of reprisal. The reporting of domestic violence incidents is sometimes influenced by the victim's economic dependence on the offender and fear of reprisal. (Skip one sentence.) Kidd and Chayet argue that the nonreporting of crime is the result of a combination of factors acting together, or alone, including victim fear of reprisal..."

Seriously? Was there no better way to word this?
Hey executive editor Frank Mortimer (no joke) - you fail.