Bullying

You hear so much about bullying now days on the news media. Kids picking on others to the point where they contemplate suicide and worst. Some of them go through with it, some get beat up, on and on. When I was growing up there was always bullying. Kids picking on others who seem to be different. I had my share since I wore glasses. Four eyes they called me. Looking at this picture. can you imagine anyone wanting to pick on me? Me neither, right. 

Unfortunately I was not the run away type, maybe because of the Danish and German in me. So I got into fights occasionally, but didn't back away especially if there were some girls around. Had a few bloody noses and a broken pair of glasses or two.

But the worst bullying I ever received was in high school. I was definitely the geek type but then I went to a technical high school where there were lots of guys like me. Anyway in my freshmen year, I was taking geometry that was being taught by the wrestling coach. For some reason he didn't seem to like the nerdy kids and he was always picking on me and another kid. I sat in the back of the room. One day he kept getting on me and I up and lost my temper. I stood up, picked up my geometry book and hurdled at him as hard as I could. It missed him and hit the blackboard. The book didn't survive and I almost didn't either. He wanted to get me expelled, but another math teacher, Mr. Chrisman and my electronics teacher Mr. Andresen came to my aid. I was kind of on probation for the rest of the year and had to pay for the destroyed book which my father made sure I paid for. Anyway that pretty much ended the bullying.