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Back in college there was a guy on my floor I just did not get along with.
Regularly unprovoked insults were hurled. Smashing food against the dorm room door. Spraying lighter fluid on the door frame and setting it ablaze (which isn't as damaging as you may think).
Taking textbooks from the room and scribbling in permanent marker over pages. Stealing meal cards out of the room and using it to buy food.
Then one day enough was enough.
Walking down the hallway being barraged by a litany of verbal abuse and having mashed potatoes from the lunch room tossed into hair and face.... he snapped. Charged at me, knocked me down, held me down, slapped me repeatedly in my face saying "if YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN IT'S GOING TO BE WORSE FOR YOU!!!"
There must have been a lot of pent up energy in this fella because I swear he slapped and punched me (full mount) for what had to have been a half an hour. I guess a semester's worth of light hearted ribbing can really turn an average kid into a beast.
Surprisingly we were able to come to a good understanding. I explained to him that while I understand he was frustrated there's no reason to act that way. He must have had a few slaps left in him because randomly he caught a good 4 more times.
Getting up from a cowering position I rephrased my comment much more to his liking.
Lucky bug got a few months of clean laundry out of the deal and permission to use my car at his whim. Which sounds like a pretty fair deal when you hear it, but I swear that rascal was being alittle too rough with it.... transmission was shot by the following year (I transferred to another college at that point).
So, scandalous as it may sound. Sometimes alittle violence can help get a point across. Even violence that is not all together justified.
Regularly unprovoked insults were hurled. Smashing food against the dorm room door. Spraying lighter fluid on the door frame and setting it ablaze (which isn't as damaging as you may think).
Taking textbooks from the room and scribbling in permanent marker over pages. Stealing meal cards out of the room and using it to buy food.
Then one day enough was enough.
Walking down the hallway being barraged by a litany of verbal abuse and having mashed potatoes from the lunch room tossed into hair and face.... he snapped. Charged at me, knocked me down, held me down, slapped me repeatedly in my face saying "if YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN IT'S GOING TO BE WORSE FOR YOU!!!"
There must have been a lot of pent up energy in this fella because I swear he slapped and punched me (full mount) for what had to have been a half an hour. I guess a semester's worth of light hearted ribbing can really turn an average kid into a beast.
Surprisingly we were able to come to a good understanding. I explained to him that while I understand he was frustrated there's no reason to act that way. He must have had a few slaps left in him because randomly he caught a good 4 more times.
Getting up from a cowering position I rephrased my comment much more to his liking.
Lucky bug got a few months of clean laundry out of the deal and permission to use my car at his whim. Which sounds like a pretty fair deal when you hear it, but I swear that rascal was being alittle too rough with it.... transmission was shot by the following year (I transferred to another college at that point).
So, scandalous as it may sound. Sometimes alittle violence can help get a point across. Even violence that is not all together justified.
