Childhood Bullies

[David Floyd]

High school kids generally don't know how to fight (at least, that's been my experience). Odds are, they'd be a cakewalk.

Very true - fighting a high school kid would be a cakewalk. Fighting three people, who would be at least my size, would be a disaster if they did the smart thing and all bum-rushed me at once. My only defense to that is to say "Sure, you can kick my ass, but which one of you wants to go to the hospital?".

[orange]

Originally posted by David Floyd
Very true - fighting a high school kid would be a cakewalk. Fighting three people, who would be at least my size, would be a disaster if they did the smart thing and all bum-rushed me at once. My only defense to that is to say "Sure, you can kick my ass, but which one of you wants to go to the hospital?".

The good thing is, if that happens, you get one good nose breaking shot in, and the other two peel out in fear. Sometimes the way to win a fight is not by winning it or being more powerful, but making victory so costly that it is unattractive.

[David Floyd]

True...I tend to think in terms of how I would fight someone, not how most people would.

[Ramo]

High school kids are also stupid. They fight to humiliate, not necessarily to win.

[Asher]

Only fight I've been in wasn't on school grounds, and was largely 1 sucker punch from me that was quickly broken up by friends.

[David Floyd]

High school kids are also stupid. They fight to humiliate, not necessarily to win.

That's a sure method of going to the hospital for a lengthy stay.

[Alexander's Horse]

I've been bullied, a bully and a defender of the bullied. What goes around, comes around.

[Gibsie]

Which are you now?

[Sava]

A few kids made fun of me in Junior High, but I beat them up and they stopped.

[Monk]

OK, OK guys, but it would be better if you could manage to get your point across without hurting people, wouldn't it? Just a thought from this former softcore, (mostly) non-violent bully...

[Jethro83]

I was the tortured tool of amusement for many of my fellow peers right from Year 2 (it was then that the wretched little brats knew what made me tick) to about year 10 (when they finally decided to grow up). The worst of it being in Year 8. It ruined my schooling as well. My mind was too bogged down to be worrying about school work, and my marks dropped quickly. I was in the honours classes at the beginning of Year 8. Then in Year 9, I was doomed to remain in all the mediocre classes. I could've made it to university, but those scars took too long to heal, and now I am ploughing through an alternative path towards my career choice.

I've learned one valuable lesson here. They are the ones with the huge problems. They selfishly decide that to make themselves feel better, they have to make someone else feel worse. If I could turn back time, I'd handle them differently. Simply saying "Sorry you think of me like that.", then walking away is enough to make THEM look like the fool.

But if anything good came out of the experience, I've realised how futile anger is, and have since been training myself to try and surpass it. I was overly angry with everything all the way through, and then it hit me... nothing was accomplished in such an irrational state of mind. And now that I've learned that lesson, I'm one step closer to true happiness.

[drake]

When I was in first grade I got punched around by two little black kids for no reason at all. Even though they were so young, looking back, there was no other reason than race. Where I lived at the time, I was a minority, and fighting back never crossed my mind.

In any case, thats all I have to share, for after that I never had any serious problems. Never got picked on after that seriously (besides the usual BS ), and I've never been one to pick on others (besides a little ribbing).

I said a few things when I was in high school that were pretty cruel and I wish I could take back....but who doesnt?

[Velociryx]

I was the smallest kid in first grade. Tiny lil' wisp of a thing, scrawny, scared....got picked on all the time, til about fifth grade....then, I hit the mother lode of growth spurts, and in the course of one summer, I went from being the runt to....Clifford the Dog? Heads and shoulders biggers than everybody else.

Got picked on one time after that (old habits die hard?), and threw the offender in an open dumpster.

Never happened again.

To borrow a quote from SMAC...."forget what your courtesans told you...size DOES matter."



-=Vel=-
6'6" 265lbs = No natural enemies...

[Arrian]

Middle School sucked for me - I was the 2nd smallest kid in my class. Plus, I had the horrible affliction of being smart, and actually being kinda proud of it. Oops. There seem to be lots of kids who don't know what happened to the Neaderthals...

High School (which I entered at aprox. 5' & 100lbs) wasn't a whole lot better until my senior year, when I was ready to leave anyway. College, luckily, was a much better experience.

I wouldn't have minded a piece of that growth spurt, Vel. I managed 5'7", but it didn't help much.

-Arrian

[Velociryx]

D'oh! You and I shoulda gone to the same school, Arrian! After having suffered at the hands of the bullies, I made it a mission to re-balance the scales....any time I saw somebody smaller or weaker getting picked on, all I'd do was sorta casually walk by and glare and wonder of wonders, but the bullies would start behaving themselves (well, 'cept for one unfortunate incident in the library...::as he chuckles to himself:: ).

I have noticed though, that being this big DOES have its disadvantages. People look at me and assume that I'm good at lifting heavy objects or reaching what's on the topmost shelf, and totally discount the notion that I might have a few brain cells and some synaptic activity going on.

After striking up a conversation with someone new, the most common reaction I get is something like: "Gee....you're pretty smart, too!" LOL...as if my physical size would somehow render me less capable of being smart....::shakes head wistfully:: But...that's okay....

-=Vel=-