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Date Posted: 20:25:10 03/20/01 Tue
Author: Celtic Enchantress
Subject: Re: Bullying- Hi Zoalord and Richard
In reply to: Richard 's message, "Re: Bullying" on 09:08:46 03/20/01 Tue

I can see where you're coming from. When we first moved to Alabama in this (back then) extremely literally 3 horse town, I was to my peers, considered a NERD! I had spent all of my life til then in very strict military schools and thus was more accustomed to studying and to make matters worse I was about 3-4 grades ahead of my classmates, intellectually speaking. I did not fit in with any of the clicks.I was one of those (only about 4 of us in the whole Sophmore-Jr. class) that got picked on by the the jocks and the more popular kids...until it came to test time then we were threatened and/or beaten til we let them steal answers off of our tests. By the end 9th,I had become a rebel. The Assistant Principle didn't like us because we weren't athletic or aesthetically over-blessed..and said,"You're bad for our image!" I had never skipped classes til I got accused of it so much. I started smoking in front of the gym and blowing it at the most exhalted ones! I guess I was just venting back at them.
Then , I grew a cast iron set of hypothetical testes. The football players were not good mechanics and had p-o'd the students in auto shop...so if they wanted something done on their vehicles they OWED ME BIG TIME!!! Well, you figure, a girl with no place to go on Sat. night because she didn't put out....she has alot of time to kill and my dad was a ace mechanic well known then...so I spent alot of time with dad.
They knew not to pick on us anymore as I taught the other 'nerds' and we knew where the distributor cap was!!!
I also showed them how to torque certain nuts,bolts and other things that would cause their engines to blow up while driving down the road!!! Finally after a couple of blown engines even the preppy kids left us alone.
In short,I do not condone destruction of private property, but,as you said, things were different then. I could not technically fight back as I had a full milwaukee backbrace on so I had to fight back the only way I knew how!!But, normally,if you had to settle something with a classmate, you didn't bring in weapons! You handled it out on the grass or the parking lot with your fists! If someone pulled a weapon it was a knife and swiftly taken away from them. Almost everyone had a rifle in the back window of their truck...yes, even me!! But I would no sooner pull the rifle out then I would've a knife!! I had been taught that that is the coward's way and would be dishonorable. I was raised with the "death before dishonor" way of the Bushido.
My hair was down past my butt and red as a fox's arse! I had no girlie shape and looked like a long haired boy from the back...so you can guess the crap I caught along with being tagged a nerd!!! It took one single 'fight' to actually make the jerks leave me alone! I had been walking from one building to another through a break area, when some jerks and jocks snatched my books, threw them down in a half dried mud puddle and then knocked me down and stood there laughing and pointing!! I saw red and then I saw black with a red halo around it and when I came to,(I don't remember taking the brace off!!!!) those kids (about 5 of them) were being hauled away in an ambulance!! I don't know what I did exactly..but,no one ever "F"ed with me again!! I also made sure they didn't pick on the other 'nerds' either!
Sorry this got really long!!! Now, I've noticed the people I went to school with have taught their kids, instead of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," they've taught them,"Do unto others BEFORE they do unto you!"
I have, since my kids were little,taught them the honorable way and that "an it HARM NONE do what YE WILL". They do not make fun of people (at least not where I can hear or see them!!),they KNOW there is more then one religion,but they have the choice!! I do send them to church as many of the morals are similar to those of the path I follow! They are allowed to change their values when they reach 13. I was not given that choice! But, otherwise, I wail on them when they are bad, I give them all the hugs and kisses they want and when they are good we do something fun together. If that makes any sense.
Again I apologize for the length of this!!

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Hey Celtic, don't apoligize, the story shows that you understand the situations, and I agree, the gun was not the best method. -- ZoaLord, 02:35:20 03/21/01 Wed