bullying... I think?
I had a curious incident during my last year of school. I was living in South Africa at the time, though I went to an English-speaking school in a large town. There were two guys, in a couple of my classes, who were always hanging out together, and seemed to think they were hard. They took a dislike to me: I was a bit geeky at the time: glasses, listened in class, more interested in what I was learning than any "pecking order" I was supposed to observe.

I think one of them elbowed me in the ribs at one point, though I wasn't paying attention. Then, as History class was starting, he tried to push me over. The way I heard it later, I whomped him on the nose, breaking it, and he ran out the class. Blood everywhere. The teacher, an old Afrikaner, said... nothing. The guy tried to "have it out" later, but I couldn't be bothered.

I mean, what the hell were they thinking? Despite the glasses, I was bigger than either of them. I think they mistook my absent-mindedness for passivity, and that made also me a target. It was the last year of school, the local version of A-Levels, and I was past all that crap. I have no idea what happened to either of them, but I could probably have done a better job at bullying, had I been that way inclined; psychological warfare is fun, if the target is deserving. 8)
( bnt what, me worry?, Thu 29 Jan 2009, 23:54, Reply)