Everyone in
high school seems absolutely
bent on getting into a
brawl with someone else. Its pretty
ridiculous in hindsight for most of you, and for me its pretty ridiculous
right now.
Here's the
inspiration for this write-up. Sitting in
English the teacher brings up the
poetry of
William Blake, which we are
studying, and assigns the
reading of two of his
poems as
homework. A
jock, well, an
athletically inclined person states that he has
read the
poems in question and does not understand them, and because of this thinks they are
stupid. A dear
friend of mine says that he thoroughly enjoyed the
poems and that they were some of the
best he had ever read (he is rather
well read). The
athletically inclined person turns to him and asks, "
Are you calling me stupid?". My friend answers no, and the jock turns around. Later during the period, he turns around and makes an
incendiary comment towards my friend, trying to incite an
altercation.
I almost
burst out laughing right then. How can one not realize what an absolutely
ludicrous situation this was.I knew a laughing fit couldn't
help the situation, per se, but it was very close to
irresistable.