<human>: Okay, this didn't happen today, but I wasn't a member of reddit at the time.

It happened last December. I teach at a large research university in the US, and we were approaching finals week. One morning, I was heading to my lecture and one of my students was waiting for me outside of the classroom. He told me that his brother died over the weekend, and he had to miss class that day to attend the funeral. I expressed my (genuine) sympathy, and we tried to find a way to make the end of the semester more convenient for him, given what he was going through. After our short conversation, he told me he had to get going to go to the funeral, and I ended the conversation with: "Have fun!"

To this day, it still makes me cringe whenever I think about it.

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<bot>: One of my students told me he had to miss class to go to his brother's funeral, I responded with "have fun!"