Posted on 09/16/2025 4:27:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Absolutely. Interestingly, there are plenty of stories of people who, when captured by Indians (Native Americans) simply acted crazy, and sometimes, Indians would leave them alone.
Many Indian cultures were afraid of insane people and didn't want anything to do with them, even didn't want to kill them.
By the way, it is funny how you can remember the name of someone who bullied you-I can see their face, but cannot remember their names!
I do remember the name of one guy who bullied me, probably for only two reasons:
First, he wasn't really seriously bullying me. He was the biggest guy in my class, and when he "bullied" me, it was not really all that adversarial-he would put me in a headlock and walk around with my stumbling 12 year old self being dragged behind. He would give me a noogie, all the while mildly giving me crap. There was oddly nothing malicious about it.
Secondly, he came from a family of nine kids, and his kid sister (Marilyn Bangle) was the first girl I ever kissed while playing spin the bottle in a concrete culvert near the Subic Bay Kalyaan Officers Club. I don't know if he knew that, but I remember thinking his headlock might not have been so loving if he had known!
Hahahahaha...that’s great! What eight year old kid wouldn’t love one????
Does it come with a thermos?
You are most welcome, FRiend.
No Mary?
{{ American pickers went gagga over old lunch boxes.}}
Have an orgasm!
https://www.columbuscollectivemuseums.com/the-lunchbox-museum/
...and get hit all the time!
Hahhaahaha!!
My 6th grade teacher, Miss Mary McCarthy, gave our class a lesson on bullies and recounted how a student (grand father of a current class member) had tamed a bully with a suitable stick. She encouraged such activity.
It is good advice!
For me, I had to get to the point where any pain or blood that might be incurred in a potential ass-kicking of me was fully overcome by the anger and embarrassment at being picked on.
To just pick up the stick (or, as my mother would implore me, to “sit on him”) would have been a leap for me, but...it would have learned me that lesson quicker!
Speaking of lunch boxes, at the Walmart checkout counter yesterday they were selling lunch boxes for $40. Some sports guys are on them.
Hey, mansions with seven stall garages filled with Lambos cost money, and somebody’s gotta pay for ‘em.
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