That talk about that near miss altercation leads me to talk about a definite altercation. Let me take you back to 6th grade..Jefferson Elementary. My year had already been scarred by the infamous first day of school suit wearing incident and it continued from there. Apparently this kid, Danny Breen, whom I definitely suspected as having stolen my good pen, had a fascination with karate kicks. Naturally I was a constant target of his(Danny) in the playground and so was my friend. It got to the point that I was like,"Ok, if you are going to keep kicking me we need to settle this. After school, in the alley near the school." I figured it would get the point across that I didn't like it even if I did lose. So I was the one to set the fight date and time. At that point in time I had a guy who would hang around me who was an idiot. Let's call him "Jimmy". I think he hung around me cause he lived in my neighborhood and Robbie gave him a beer one time. Well Jimmy decides to show up as support to the fight and bring his bicycle chain. Danny also had a friend and he showed up as well. This being my first fight I wasn't really sure what to do. I didn't know any fight etiquette or anything and I was really nervous. I reasoned that since I asked for it I should be the one to start off while Jimmy swings his chain around and looks at Danny's friend. So I tried to use words at first,"You realize I want to fight you because you keep on kicking me, if you agree to stop kicking me we can end this fight." He didn't seem to say anything and he gets in this karate kind of stance. So naturally I was like what the heck let's do this. I run forward and pick him up by his shoulders and slam him against the fence. I thought," I won!" a little too soon. He pushes me back and then proceeds to start to kick me. I grab his leg and then he uses his other leg to push me to the ground. Eventually I am on the ground and he is on top of me in some kind of wrestling hold. I am speaking and I seem to remember saying,"ow" and "ok, you win". I think Jimmy ended up watching it instead of fighting. He let me get up and I walked home. It was like surreal, all I had to do was say ok you win. However, I was right about the lesson learned and I didn't get kicked after that even after losing. A couple of weeks later I get called into the principles office. Apparently Jimmy and Danny's friend got in a fight and one of them squealed on us. The principle was like,"Now because you were off school grounds I can't do anything, but if you ever fight on school grounds, I'll know." I was thinking," Aha,I knew you couldn't do anything, that's why I scheduled it off school grounds." The person I felt sorry for the most was Danny's friend. He got in major trouble and he really didn't cause any of it. I suppose he was told to stay away from me. I was a "bad seed". LOL

Thought of the Day
"You got a problem with Woody Woodpecker?"
"Yeah, what is he, some sort of an instigator?"
"That's right, he's a troublemaker."
- Kramer and George, in "The Mom and Pop Store"