Ever been bullied?
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My high school had a tradition of "Frosh Week" like in Dazed and Confused, but it was the first week of school each year. The school staff and local police tried to stop it, but it would always take more than a week for the freshmen to realize they didn't have to put up with it. Each year a rumour would get spread that if you told a teacher you would also be suspended or expelled for participating. You'd think any kid would be smart enough to know better than to believe the rumour, but nobody would ever tell on anyone.
The froshing was usually no big deal (ass paddlings, a little slapping around) but sometimes got so far out of hand. The senior bullies were always taking it too far. One day I saw a guy completely naked, taped to a flag pole about 30 feet in the air with no way down. He had tape on his mouth so he was up there for a while. Sometimes kids would get thrown in a car, blindfolded and driven out into the country side and just left out there with no phone or anything. Once some bullies tied a freshman to their car and drove around, expecting him to run behind it. He couldn't keep up, fell, got all fucked up and broke some bones. Still, he was too scared to tell the police who did it.
Anyway, it was pretty common to see kids walking through the hall that had just been froshed. They were so sad, sometimes crying. Totally fucking defeated, on the first week of high school. So, I really made a point of talking to those kids after. Like, "Hey, kid, don't let them get to you. It's over, and if you take it like a man, you'll be fine." Then we'd tell them about a party or get some girls to hang out with them or something to try to make them feel cool.
I learned then that simply being nice to someone at just the right time can be a pretty powerful thing.
Whoa, writing this story out made me realize I was basically the one dude from Dazed and Confused. Hahahahahaha
