fqotd - were you ever beaten during recess?

Mar 5, 2007 at 2:31 PM
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this fqotd comes from the brilliant and bitter wit of islndgirl.

I don't think I was ever beaten during recess; not because of any charm I may have possessed, but rather that it was not fashionable to beat up girls during my school years. I was, instead, shunned. had I been male, I'd been beaten pretty regularly, I'm sure.

Shunned

Loooonesome

I was new in town, sickly, intellectual, and *weird*; havent' changed much since then.
it didn't take me long to realize there are few pleasures in being ignored, and that "teeter-tooter for one" blows. so from the 3rd grade on I had a standing excuse from recess and spent the time in my small school's "library" (actually 2½ shelves). happiest part of the school day.

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Books were my best friends as a young 'un, too. I got along fairly well with the few other nerdy young intellectuals. I went to a small K-12 rural school, so we all knew each other from beginning to graduation. There weren't enough kids to go around to do too much shunning.

I was too fearful to get into fights. But other fights during recess were a prime source of entertainment. So you can say that I liked to watch.

I was never a new kid, but sickly, intellectual and weird will get you cast out no matter how many generations of your family came before you. Thank goodness for books.

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Kids can be cruel. I moved alot as a child, but as you can tell from my blogs I just jumped right in the middle and would say Hi. I am here. What do you all want ta do. lol

you're right, of course. sickly, intellectual, and weird is an express ticket to shunsville every time. but look who's cool now, right? *looks around* *hears crickets* eh.

A liberrian in the making, m! Books are such good company, at any age.

Well never got beaten because that implies losing. I was also the wierdo and the shunned. I always tried fighting back. A few fights never really losing or winning. Until 6th grade. Then the fights stopped. A kid who knew karate decided to pick on the kid with the speech impediment. He downed me with one punch. Then I got the chair. My mother had always said, never start a fight but if you get into a fight, don't fight fair. I guess I took her advice. The teacher stopped it before I did something very bad. Nevertheless, that was my last fight in school. No one tried again. However, I was still the wierdo and the shunned.

A chair! I WISH I had thought of that.

We had three groups of kids at my school -- the popular kids, the outcasts, and those that nobody seemed to notice. Luckily, I was in the third group, so I mostly sailed under the radar. Which was fine with me, because I had no interest in being popular, but I probably wasn't self-confident enough to deal with actual shunning.

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