MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Now that's what I call Justice

That's what happens when you have a "zero tolerance" policy.

When I was in 4th grade there was some kind of early "fight club" going on where you'd get a note at lunch that somebody "chooses" you at the end of lunch which basically meant at the last 5 minutes of recess, they were going to fight you so you'd better be ready.

There was this real prick who was like this champion or something because he kept winning, but basically he kept "choosing" the scrawny kids (like this poor kid named Scotty who was teased relentlessly for being a poor, Jehovah's Witness kid). So of course Scotty gets beat to a pulp, poor kid didn't want to fight in the first place and was basically ambushed. I didn't have the courage to stand up during the fight but afterward told him that it was messed up that he beat up such a smaller kid. So the next day he "choosed" me at recess. I was pretty scrawny in elementary school and had never been in a fight before.

It was like a damned Hollywood movie. The second the fight started it started pouring rain. The playground turned muddy and he and I were wresting on the ground. I managed to get him in a headlock that just about made him pass out. His tongue was hanging out and everything. Finally a teacher broke it up and marched us to the principal's office.

I broke down and cried like a little baby. I had never wanted to fight at all, but also wasn't about to back down. I was sent home with my parents, the other kid was suspended. My dad told me he was proud of me for standing up for myself. We really never talked about it since, and I wasn't ever "chosen", or really bullied again.