A bullying fine?

[GMDino]

(05-13-2016, 10:59 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Here is a true story about bullying from my own life that shows how stupid it can be.

I grew up in a small town (Franklin).  Back in the 70's when I was riding the bus to school I was on a route that took a wide sweep around some of the outer edges of the school district.  So I rode the same bus with kids from the other side of town.   For some reason unknown to me there was a dispute form a part of town they called "Hollywood" and the place where I lived, Pennyroyal Hill.  The problem was I was the only male student from my part of town that rode the bus.  I was constantly getting picked on.  They stole my hats.  They stole my homework.  I even got into a couple of fights.  The only thing that helped was my parents complaining to the school about the lack of control on the bus.  The bus driver was forced to give assigned seats and establish more discipline on his bus.  But even then the disputes carried over to the schoolyards, but there was always more adult supervision at school.  

And I had to go through all of that just because of WHERE I LIVED.  It was insane.  I was even stronger and smarter than average for my age growing up, but some of these kids were years older than me and there was a group of them.

How would you have had me deal with that situation, Lucie?  How could I have handled that problem without help from adult supervision?

Had an experience in high school where the cousin of a classmate wanted to beat me up.  No idea why.  He went to a different school and would wait at the bus stop where his cousin got dropped off and yell at me through the window of the bus.

This went on for a couple months.

One day I'd had enough and was giving him some lip from inside and the bus driver yelled at ME.  Told me he'd let him on the bus if *I* kept it up.

That was a big help. 

The kid eventually stopped coming when he figured out I wasn't getting off the bus just to fight him.  Hell, he knew where I lived he could have just come there.

I saw him not two weeks ago when I was out to eat with my family.  I tried to wave and say hello and he just ignored me.

Oh well.