THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Barry Egan on December 16, 2009, 02:46:42 PM
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co-opted from the GAF thread.
During 2nd grade, I retaliated on a 5th grader who had been threatening me by punching his kindergardener brother in the stomache. I had the holy hell beat out of me soon afterwards.
In 5th grade, I stuck another bullies head in the urinal. Never had trouble from him again again.
As a scrawny white student going to public schools in Harlem and the Bronx, I became less and less confident in my abilities to reciprocate. Fortunately I was only picked on in isolated incidences.
I'm mostly interested in what EB's parent community thinks about bullying -- how do you plan on guiding your youngins through the perils of school-age ostracizing?
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I fought back against a bully in 2nd grade and got the living shit beat out of me. That was the end of my "standing up for yourself" adventure!
Edit: Ironically, about two years ago I read about said bully committing a murder in the local paper. I can't say I was surprised. :teehee
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Hopefully my wife's brother will teach my kid how to box since I'm going to be too busy training my successor who will eventual dump me for a big time manager and challenge me to a street fight in a desperate attempt to show the people that he is the real champ.
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I steal Cheebs' lunch money every day
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Himuro got picked on by fat kids for being too skinny.
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Maybe it was the bomb strapped to yer stomach :ninja
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I was one of the lucky kids who just kinda never came up on any bully's radar. I wasn't exactly popular, but the popular kids treated me decently. I was just kinda there, which is better than getting the shit beat out of you.
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I got in a fight every day, I was brought up as a boxer and a fighter, no one fucked with me, and if someone tried to? They'd get their head smashed into the bus window. One time I punched a kid out and sat on him and pummeled his head.
I got into alot of trouble as a kid.
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I got in a few shoving matches during middle school. That's about it.
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I got in a fight every day, I was brought up as a boxer and a fighter, no one fucked with me, and if someone tried to? They'd get their head smashed into the bus window. One time I punched a kid out and sat on him and pummeled his head.
I got into alot of trouble as a kid.
:teehee
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How did you guys have a fun childhood if you never got into fights or anything? I can't comprehend that. WHen I was with some friends, his brothers would bet on which one of us would win in a fight. My friend had a room and a giant mattress so we'd box on that while his brothers watched. I can't rememebr who won, I think I might've lost, but i'm pretty sure that was my first and only lost.
It's kinda weird how back then I was a brawler, but now i'm a man of peace and forgiveness.
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i'm pretty sure every guy did boxing matches in their friends backyards and shit as teenagers.
i got into a few fights in high school, but nothing crazy and it never had to do with bullying.
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so methodis spent his childhood rolling around with a bunch of boys on top of a mattress in a small room while older boys watched? :teehee
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I don't ever remember there being any real bullies at the two schools I went to. Oh, sometimes there'd be fights or whatever, but it usually blew over pretty fast. There were some kids that got made fun of, but I don't think any of them were actually physically bullied on any kind of constant basis. Overall, I had a fairly quiet school life.
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I wasn't a teenager though, I was 8. :lol
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When we moved to my current town as a kid, I had it out with the (I didn't know this at the time, of course)school bully on the bus on my very first day. Everything was pretty smooth sailing after that. :punch
But being a bigger guy doesn't always help. In my late teens and early twenties, I was routinely targeted out of the blue when out in town by drunk guys with something to prove. It really got grating for awhile, and I always had to be on the lookout when at bars, then for some reason around age 24-25, it just stopped altogether.
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I never got bullied, except at this Christian-run daycare center. Dude kept calling me fat and kicked me in the balls, so later that day, I broke his nose in the hallway. I got a big lecture on what being Christian meant (even moreso since I was a dirty heathen).
The dude then tripped me a week later, so the day after that - at the bus stop - I picked up a log and whacked him in the head. He got knocked unconscious. Never gave me crap after that.
My folks grounded me both times, something about "turning the other cheek". I never bought into that.
I got in-school suspension when I was at Eastern magnet program for carrying a "concealed weapon" onto school premises (it was a homemade slingshot, made of a Y-shaped twig and a rubberband).
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I wasn't a teenager though, I was 8. :lol
sweet. doesn't sound as fun as doing it as a teenager though. more skill, muscle, testosterone and sex involved. rawr
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ya I never even saw a fight in hs. It seemed once I hit 8th grade every thing just sorta peaced out. The only things I ever saw in HS was guys just going "WHAT ARE YOU GUNNA DO ABOUT IT" and shit like that, was so lame.
I miss fighting though, alot. I've been thinking about getting a boxing bag and trying it out again.
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i would never fight a black kid, their hair is so greasy
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the shoving matches are lame. the best thing was yelling "BET YOU WON'T HIT HIM" and watching the dude with the lower self esteem go for it.
when i lived with my brother, we got rid of the dining room table and put a punching bag in there. it was awesome.
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ya I never even saw a fight in hs. It seemed once I hit 8th grade every thing just sorta peaced out. The only things I ever saw in HS was guys just going "WHAT ARE YOU GUNNA DO ABOUT IT" and shit like that, was so lame.
I saw a huge brawl in high school. There were about seven or eight guys all going at it at once in the hall. A girl got punched in the face.
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I'll have em do boxing and wrestling, something I wish my parents made me do instead of soccer and baseball.
Speaking of bullying:
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I'll have em do boxing and wrestling, something I wish my parents made me do instead of soccer and baseball.
you want your kid to turn out gay?
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Had it pretty rough from 6-9, dumb village school with a lot of idiots in my class and the two classes above that for some reason found it fun to gang up on me during every break. The head teacher saw it once and said that it was good, so I wouldn't be so "weird" or some shit.
After it reached the point where the whole school save for the neighbor girl was partaking in the daily sessions, I eventually decided that I was going to hurt one of them really badly (after reading some satanic thing that went against all the bible shit) and see what would happen. The dumbass tried to do his usual thing by pushing me into a tree, so I walloped in the teeth, kicked him in the stomach and pushed him into an anthill with my foot on his chest. Over the next year, I'd regularly single any one of the turds out and beat him up, either by pure aggression right in his face, or ambushes. The teacher couldn't say much since he had supported that behavior before, so anything short of maiming them was apparently alright.
I think the trick was that that while they did it for kicks, I did it because I had to, so it was more primal and without any real boundaries.
As for the kid, I have no idea. If it was a boy I'd just follow my dad's advice and tell him to strike back with overwhelming force, but she's a girl and I have no idea how things work there.
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My cousin used to bully me; he was adopted by one of my aunts. Whenever I'd visit my grandmother he'd be there, in part because my aunt wanted us to grow up together/be friends or whatever. Instead he'd constantly attempt to embarrass me, or hit me. At the time, my grandmother lived with my uncle, and he has a big house with a huge backyard in Detroit. It was a fun place to be during the summer. My time there was split between playing Street Fighter 2 and exploring outside, and my cousin fucked both of those things up. Basically I'd kick his ass in SF2, then he'd kick my ass outside because he was pissed. And not in terms of us wrestling or anything. I'm talking about me climbing a tree having fun by myself, then him throwing logs at me or trying to pull me out the tree. Or running as fast as he could and pushing me from behind. Punching me out of nowhere, then being all like "sorry man, I was just having fun lol."
Every summer I'd go to a Sunday bible camp at my grandma's church, and my cousin would come too. One year there was this girl at the camp that he really liked, but was too shy to talk to. He asked me to tell her how cool he was, and I told him no. He'd ask me to do this every day, grabbing my arm and shit. Finally one day during lunch he pushed me from behind, right onto the table the girl was sitting at. I was covered in food/juice and was about to tackle him, but an adult separated us. Not one fucking person came forward and defended my story that I was pushed, and I wound up getting punished after I wouldn't apologize for trying to hit my cousin.
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I'll have em do boxing and wrestling, something I wish my parents made me do instead of soccer and baseball.
you want your kid to turn out gay?
No, that's why I won't force them to do soccer and baseball :teehee
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I'd probably sound exactly like that kid if I had braces. :-\
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I never fought at school. When I had beef with someone I had other people take care of him. Didn't want to get expelled.
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I don't think I've ever got into a fight at school that wasn't just playfighting. The only fights I ever saw in middle or high school were just between girls actually. Fucking vicious, one teacher had to get stitches on his face when he tried to break it up.
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I was constantly tormented in middle school and high school. I really don't like to get into the stuff that happened because it takes me back to a very dark time in my life. My mother was undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer and I couldn't be with her, I was always being tormented by children who didn't know me and didn't care, I started doing poorly in classes because I was so worried about my mother... before then I was a straight A student. After then, hell I barely made it through high school with a B or C average. I think my GPA was 2.5 when I graduated. I stopped caring. I realized that the smart kids, unless they were also the popular kids, were nothing. All it would do was get me singled out. If I tried to help a teacher that needed help, or if I tried to stop other people from getting picked on, it all got turned around to me. I fucking hated middle school, I hated high school, and I hope to god that I never have kids that either go through that, or perpetuate it.
Also, I have never been in a fight. I didn't get physically abused usually, just verbally. And I never really defended myself because I didn't feel I was worth it.
Like I said, a real dark place when I was a kid. I almost did some really stupid things. Had it not been for thinking about what my mother would have thought of me, it may have happened. And god am I ever glad it didn't.
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I fucking hated middle school, I hated high school, and I hope to god that I never have kids that either go through that, or perpetuate it.
This is the problem for me. My kid is going to go to preschool next year, and my experiences from that and years ahead makes me pretty uneasy about that. She's a girl so things will be different, but it's troubling. Worse yet is that I know that parents rarely get to hear about shit until after the fact or until it gets so bad that it can't be resolved any other way, so I can only hope she has better teachers than I did. I will literally crucify any teacher that acts like the ones I had.
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I'll have em do boxing and wrestling, something I wish my parents made me do instead of soccer and baseball.
you want your kid to turn out gay?
No, that's why I won't force them to do soccer and baseball :teehee
I did soccer, baseball AND wrestling. :-*
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No, that's why I won't force them to do soccer and baseball :teehee
(http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/bombsdavid/SportsTiming05.jpg)
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I got into a lot of fights when younger, but it was never really bullying, it was more just for fun. Only time that was probably bullying was this one kid in an art class during high school. He was acting like a cunt towards a friend and I. That was mostly the extent of it. I had other friends in the class that would ask if I wanted them to fight this kid or something, but I never understood the point and it's not like I couldn't defend myself if I needed to. I should clarify that these are two different types of friends. The first who was "bullied" along with me was really nerdy and I would hang out occasionally to talk about animu and shit. The others were another group I used to do things with, usually more physical stuff like playing basketball and
grab ass football with. There was never any real resolution with this guy. Last time I saw him he was a brain dead stoner, and I've had my fair share of stoner friends.
but yeah, I never lost it because it never got to the point where I needed to. There was one conflict when someone ripped a handle off my bag in middle school (this was on a bus back home, btw), then punched me in the gut. That might count. That ended with me almost breaking his arm and getting kicked off the bus.
Oh, and someone tried to stab me in high school once. Again, I don't considering that bullying. I mostly just made him drop it and choked him a bit.
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forcing your kids to do team sports sucks
if anything i hope my kid skateboards
i wouldnt trade my childhood skating memories for anything in the world
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I once beat the shit out of an older cousin I was like 8 or 9 and he 11 or 12 thats probably my proudest moment.
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Didn't really fight much myself. Seen some nasty fights though. Mainly between middle/high school girls, both of whom were "in love" with the same guy. Some of those fights ended up with one or both girls' breasts, ass, or both hanging out for everyone to see, depending on what they were wearing to school that day.
Also seen two high school guys get in a fight once. The break area was close to the teacher/student parking and one guy took and body-slammed the other onto a teacher's Cadillac, basically destroying the windshield of the car and severely damaging the hood as well.
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I got picked on a lot as a kid, but I started fighting back and kind of got the reputation as "that crazy kid" because I picked up a desk and threw it at a kid. So no one fucked with me too much until I think it was freshman year of high school? Anyway, I hung out with the skate punks, who were mortal enemies of the rednecks. This was sort of on the suburban/rural melting pot in Georgia, so you'd have kids of yuppies (that's me) going to school with racist, ignorant jackasses who liked to beat us up because we were weird. So apparently one of my friends said something about this neanderthal's frizzy haired, fat assed (not in a good way, Maurice) gf and I was seen laughing about it. I had PE with the redneck as my last class of the day and he just walked up to me and cold cocked me. Boom! One punch out of no where and I was down on my back.
For whatever reason, BOTH OF US had to get in school suspension even though my only transgression was to laugh at a joke at the expense of his land whale gf. A couple of weeks later the older brother (this guy wasn't a skate punk, just a bodybuilding jackass who liked to lift weights and hit people... fortunately none of us) of my friend who cracked the joke absolutely beat the shit out of the redneck. The guy had his scalp split open from getting it slammed against a locker. The older brother went to jail for that one, haha. No other rednecks fucked with me again, tho.
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I got picked on a lot as a kid, but I started fighting back and kind of got the reputation as "that crazy kid" because I picked up a desk and threw it at a kid. So no one fucked with me too much until I think it was freshman year of high school? Anyway, I hung out with the skate punks, who were mortal enemies of the rednecks. This was sort of on the suburban/rural melting pot in Georgia, so you'd have kids of yuppies (that's me) going to school with racist, ignorant jackasses who liked to beat us up because we were weird. So apparently one of my friends said something about this neanderthal's frizzy haired, fat assed (not in a good way, Maurice) gf and I was seen laughing about it. I had PE with the redneck as my last class of the day and he just walked up to me and cold cocked me. Boom! One punch out of no where and I was down on my back.
For whatever reason, BOTH OF US had to get in school suspension even though my only transgression was to laugh at a joke at the expense of his land whale gf. A couple of weeks later the older brother (this guy wasn't a skate punk, just a bodybuilding jackass who liked to lift weights and hit people... fortunately none of us) of my friend who cracked the joke absolutely beat the shit out of the redneck. The guy had his scalp split open from getting it slammed against a locker. The older brother went to jail for that one, haha. No other rednecks fucked with me again, tho.
Until they elected George Bush!
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i got picked onna bit on account of being poor and later for being smart, but i was also big for my age and physically fit so i didn't get a whole lot of shit. i also had been taking karate classes since age 9 and while that didn't ACTUALLY mean shit, everyone thought i was a fuckin ninja. i also tended to hit back because when you have brothers, hitting is a way of life. i wasn't particularly popular, but nor was i hated, and i was considered to be a bit crazy, so i did alright, all things considered. really wouldn't want to do it again, though, because oh my god i was a fuckin moron and recollecting the distinguished mentally-challenged things i did makes me weep like a girl and/or a masturbating kentuckian.
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skate punks?
i think the card cheat went to school in the 80s
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I actually one time got into a shouting match with a kid in fifth grade. We both got sent to the office to do the "settle our conflict" bullshit with the new, soft-spoken VP. I made nice and acted as innocent as I could but he surprisingly tried to make a big deal of it and saying that I started the fight and must be punished and shit (I think we were arguing over pokemon). Eventually, I got sent back pretty quickly but he had to get a little bit more talking therapy.
The therapy didn't work tho since when he got back to class during quiet reading time, he pushed my desk and screamed "I HATE YOU SARMAD!" and I just sat there rolling my eyes. The boy of course got his ass thrown back into the office where he waited for his mom to pick him up. A rumor went around though that he was so crazy in that office that the soft-spoken VP slapped him so maybe, I technically instigated a fight between an adult and student?
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What the fuck is a "Sarmad"?
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I got into a fight once in third grade because some kid was talking shit that I was from the city (this was when I went to school in a backwater town). Teacher broke us up almost right away.
Other else than that, not much. My family was poor but I was too isolated from my distinguished mentally-challenged magnet program to really interact with other kids other than the ones in my group (at one semester in fifth grade, it was about 20 girls and just myself) I made the right choice in lifting weights and going out for football. The only way to get beat up then is if you're an extreme douchebag. I was pretty popular but I was pretty chubby but I worked out a lot so the fat and muscle mix made it so I didn't catch any shit but I didn't catch any women either.
To pick up something from what Prole said, as for regrets, my entire middle and high school was a regret.
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Alot of eivlbore is a giant pussy, or nerds as children. Wilco, Drewsy, and myself should form a club of badasses.
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Oh and my High School years were a regret but not my fault. In freshman year I caught a rare disease and was out of the school year for half a year, so there went my social life for the rest of HS. :-\ People wouldn't really tlak to me either because I guess they thought I was that "kid with the disease" even though it was long gone. :-\
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i got picked onna bit on account of being poor and later for being smart, but i was also big for my age and physically fit so i didn't get a whole lot of shit.
The curious thing about that is that, looking back, I was not particularly spindly or short. But somehow that was the perception, and I ended up believing them. I think it sort of surprised the idiots (and myself) when I was fully capable of beating up any one of them, although I think that had more to do with the aforementioned need to do so, which tends to make you more vicious and capable of dealing real hurt.
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Oh and my High School years were a regret but not my fault. In freshman year I caught a rare disease and was out of the school year for half a year, so there went my social life for the rest of HS. :-\ People wouldn't really tlak to me either because I guess they thought I was that "kid with the disease" even though it was long gone. :-\
Maybe you and Kosma should form a club instead. :smug
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What the fuck is a "Sarmad"?
My name.
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I only had maybe 10 minor fights throughout school. I wasn't ubercool and I wasn't a nerd either, so only ran into bullies now and then.
I do think bullies are worthless pieces of crap and was always pleased when someone inevitably beat the living daylights out of them.
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i was never bullied. was even a bully myself in 1st-2nd grade, i had my own slide, and people working under me, nobody could go on my slide except me and my friends. in high school guys would try and harrass me because i would get the hot girls that they wanted from the same sex school down the street, they basically wanted me to give up and say its not worth it, it never worked, one of the guys pussied out and said he was sorry during kairos, i still beat him up when i saw him when i was drunk later in college
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Oh and my High School years were a regret but not my fault. In freshman year I caught a rare disease and was out of the school year for half a year, so there went my social life for the rest of HS. :-\ People wouldn't really tlak to me either because I guess they thought I was that "kid with the disease" even though it was long gone. :-\
pussy, i woulda beat yer scrawndo sickling ass
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maybe you shoudl stop being poor and having free lunch from the school, smarty pants
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no money means nothing to lose, crip
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I wish I had your good looks in HS :'(
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lol
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i was pretty swass, yeah. shame about my elder years.
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I got into a lot of fights in elementary school, but pretty much always won. If a kid was pissing me off, I would just punch him in the face. Wish I could do that now with no consequences.
I never had to deal with stuff in middle school or high school, really.
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I didn't get bullied in the traditional sense that most people tend to think of. In elementary, I didn't get beaten up every day, or get my lunch money stolen (which was never a problem cause I was poor and my dad hated me). I got into some pretty minor scuffles, that just went about as far as shoving, but they happened very few times.
Middle school was pretty shitty. Again, I didn't get my ass beat down, or had anything stolen, but I was constantly ridiculed by most of the guys in my class (especially PE :-\ ). I thought I was hot shit at the time cause I was the smartest kid in class, but I came to find out that being a smug jackass while also being pitifully skinny, does not make for a good combination.
High school went pretty smoothly, though. The worst I remember happening is being pushed by this one black dude in PE in freshman year (I didn't even know who this asshole was). But other than that, everyone for the most part was pretty mature, and got along well.
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Had a bully/tormentor in the 2nd grade. That's about it.
Come 8th grade, I was the protector of one of my friends against bullies. They surrounded him one day, I pushed this huge obese kid into a wall, then traded very ineffectual punches with another kid for about 30 seconds before a teacher caught us. Only time I'd ever gotten any sort of detention in school.
Then comes high school, and, like drinky, I had acquired the "he's a fucking ninja" mystique, and no one was likely to bother me. I did, on occasion, pull a bully off of some poor shmuck he was pounding on. They'd always then stare at me, enraged that I would dare to stop their fun, and I could see them briefly consider continuing their assault with me as their target, but they never did. :lol
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I got into a lot of fights in elementary school, but pretty much always won. If a kid was pissing me off, I would just punch him in the face. Wish I could do that now with no consequences.
amen to that
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When I was in elementary school, I was bullied a lot after transferring to a new school district. I didn't fit in at all, my haircut sucked, my clothes were cheap, and everyone else in the school district was rich, well-dressed, and well-groomed. I got beat up by the older kids and tried to fight back but couldn't catch them once they started running away. My dad heard about a local karate class and I decided to enroll so I could start winning the fights. Soon after starting training nobody started fights with me anymore; it wasn't even that I beat anyone up -- there just weren't anymore fights. I just think I started carrying myself with more confidence. Bullies aren't looking for a challenge, they're looking for a victim.
Bullies are so awash in their own insecurities that they have to make other people feel like shit in an effort to make themselves feel better, and so out of touch with their own emotion that they not only can't deal with sadness or fear, instead channeling it into anger; commonly they also do this with affection as well.
Bullying crap started up again when I got to high school and enrolled in freshman wrestling. Most of the varsity wrestling team were borderline delinquents who had all been caught and disciplined by the vice principal of their junior high school... who happened to be my mom. They were all really stoked to have a chance at revenge every day. I got pink-bellied a dozen or so times, had my clothes ripped and torn off from me, and every moment where wrestling was practiced was a series of overlooked fouls. When it got out that I was quitting, half of the varsity team confronted me in the locker room at once and beat the hell out of me.
I'd also planned to get back at any of them when I found them separated from their pack, but a chance never appeared. They were always around each other outside of the gym, probably because they were always at odds with the football team; the teams hated each other. Anyway, I never found one of them alone.
A couple years after graduating HS a guy at a gas station was staring at me; I finished filling up and left, got two blocks away when I realized it was the worst bully of the group. I spun the wheel, did a U-turn and went back but the guy was already gone. Though I regret missing him, the timing is probably for the best.
Recently I caught up with a guy from the Jr. varsity team, and we talked about old times. He brought up that guy, the worst bully, and mentioned that he'd been shot to death a few years ago. I actually felt bad for the guy; apparently he never learned not to be a dick.
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i just toss them money
feels good man
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I got beat up by the older kids and tried to fight back but couldn't catch them once they started running away.
That's genuinely is a :'( moment.
He brought up that guy, the worst bully, and mentioned that he'd been shot to death a few years ago.
:heart
Feel sorry for his parents though, unless they were dicks as well.
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Kid took my money on like next to last day of middle school.
He walked off at the end of the hallway. I chased after him, tackled him, punched him in the gut. Got my money back. He got suspended, I got off free.
I was 9 at the time. Was held to a fence and punched on while being called a distinguished black fellow. That sucked.
Stupid kid in gym class made fun of my friends in 7th grade. One day I got tired of it, so I grabbed the collar of his gym shirt, swung him around in circles while kicking him in the ass at the same time.
Was bullied in 6th grade, retaliated, called the guy a distinguished effete fellow. We got into scuffle. School intervened because there was so much "tension".
I went to a day care in elementary school during holidays and after school. Think of it as the Y except they actually taught up to grades 2. So basically, we did various activities like go to the local skating rink for fun. The Kingwood branch of this daycare went as well. We considered them rivals. Anyways, kids from Kingwood bullied me often, but I always got them back by tripping them while they skated. That backfired because one of the kids tripped me, I fell on my face and half of one of my front teeth broke off. Hurt like hell.
In high school a stupid distinguished black fellow stole my cd player in like, some architecture class or some shit. One of those cheesy classes they give seniors and shit, I don't remember. I just remember drawing buildings and interiors and crap. Anyways, this kid stole my cd player and I was well known to wear steel toed boots, Mupepe can confirmed this, I kicked that distinguished black fellow in the leg multiple times with those steal toed boots. He got hissy, he got pissy, but he didn't do shit.
Pussies.
All of them.
Haven't been in a fight in a while.
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I guess I just listed a bunch of fights I got into and not just bullying. Oh well. There was another time in elementary school when this kid hit me with a jump rope and I fucking mauled him. First time I got detention ever, I cried so hard but he deserved it dammit.
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Himuro, you're a fighter, not a lover.
I got beat up by the older kids and tried to fight back but couldn't catch them once they started running away.
That's genuinely is a :'( moment.
He brought up that guy, the worst bully, and mentioned that he'd been shot to death a few years ago.
:heart
Feel sorry for his parents though, unless they were dicks as well.
Yeah, exactly so. I can only imagine a jerk of that magnitude had a crappy home life which sent him down that road.
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Well at least the people here who did get bullied were able to take care of themselves. It's a good thing I was never bullied, because if I were I'd have been screwed. I was too scrawny to be a fighter.