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Edited on Sun May-08-11 04:44 PM by PCIntern
When I was a kid I went to a Quaker School, and, because I was small and Jewish, I got beaten up regularly by some of my classmates. The Principal and the teachers didn't care too much about that UNTIL I HIT BACK. Then I was the 'bad guy' for not 'turning the other cheek' as it were. I was suspended from school for three days for punching a kid who regularly tortured and hit me even in front of the playground supervisors. They didn't do a goddamned thing, but one day, I took a swing and knocked this asshole right into the mud and got yanked - literally- up to the Principal's office. I was in sixth grade. So he's going off on me for my violence and nothing I can say placated him, and he suspended me like I said for three days.
So when I came back to school, I gave notice that I would be leaving for the following academic year which was just fine with my parents, and I made an appointment to see the principal. When he asked me all snotty what I wanted, sneering, I told him that it just so happened that I had seen him at the New Hope Motel with his secretary, Mrs. P. a couple of weeks before that in the late afternoon and just wanted to say that I was really really sorry that I hadn't gotten off my bike to say hello.
He was a big man and when all of the color drained out of his face, I actually got scared for him. I thought he was gonna die or something.
Anyway, I thought I would tell this story again here - it's been a few years since I told it last, and in light of those who say that maybe they should have taken bin Laden prisoner, I would submit that a pre-emptive stike works every time. I never ever had to worry about that prick principal again, and we'll never have to worry about that prick bin Laden again.
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