Topic: Just horrible.

[BeSeeingYou]

I never really got picked on too much, if I did I was always able to handle it. I was the guy that hung out with everyone, the jocks, the nerds, the skaters, the goths, etc. etc. I was on a first name basis with everyone in my grade and the grade above and below. Worst thing I had to do was kick a kid right in the chest, he kind of fell down the stairs.  

All we had were the Jocks, the Heads, smart kids, and the AV Club.  I smoked a lot of pot but I was also in the chess club all through high school and was one of the best players in my school of 500 so I could straddle the divide.  I grew up playing baseball with the jocks but gave it up to get a job to afford my car, sailboat, pot, and girlfriend so I worked from 15 on instead of sports.

I just don't remember much bullying or what there was was short lived.  The teachers did a good job of keeping you in line and were not against using a little physical intimidation.  I got thrown against a locker by one for being an ass once.

[Caaveman82]

I never really got picked on too much, if I did I was always able to handle it. I was the guy that hung out with everyone, the jocks, the nerds, the skaters, the goths, etc. etc. I was on a first name basis with everyone in my grade and the grade above and below. Worst thing I had to do was kick a kid right in the chest, he kind of fell down the stairs.  

All we had were the Jocks, the Heads, smart kids, and the AV Club.  I smoked a lot of pot but I was also in the chess club all through high school and was one of the best in my school of 500 so I could straddle the divide.  I grew up playing baseball with the jocks but gave it up to get a job to afford my car, sailboat, pot, and girlfriend so I worked from 15 on instead of sports.

I just don't remember much bullying or what there was was short lived.  The teachers did a good job of keeping you in line and were not against using a little physical intimidation.  I got thrown against a locker by one for being an ass once.

You little smart ass! lol

[Brown Bomber]

Every spring (in my case, june) I count the years since high school graduation and am filled with intense gratitude.  I'm half convinced the only people who actually enjoy high school either smoked enough pot to not remember it, or are serious sociopaths.

AMEN to that!

Ditto!

[demon78]

High school for me was god awful I was 6'1" and the synapses were not really connected properly,couldn't turn around with out falling got bullied unmercifully, at 17 I was a boy soldier and all the divisions between bullies and their prey disappeared, everyone learned quickly who was at the top of that pecking order  and "high school hysteria" didn't cut it and when I got to my squadron there were retreads from  WW 2's military organizations and various countries you learned not to prod them. so bullying was out for you and everyone else, plus you had a purpose and that cut out almost all of the silly school boy BS.
Bill the demon.

[Don R]

High school sucked for me too, I had a searing case of acne and was painfully shy. I drilled it into my kids that all the HS bull has nothing to do with the real world. My class reunions seem to be a meeting for phonies and braggars. I enjoy watching them try to convince each other how great they have done.
 One guy works as an engineer, at the 10th reunion he pointed out a classmate saying his profession in the book said service tech but really he worked for Roto Rooter, making fun. I said I know, I work for him, what's your point. The reason he wrote service tech is because of people like you.  There was a back pedaling and word eating festival, what an ass.