athenian200
Circumspect
- Joined
- Jan 31, 2010
Well, when I was in Kindergarten, one time the teacher told us that if we didn't go to the bathroom before going to recess, then we couldn't ask to go during. I had to go during recess, but I didn't think I could ask to use the bathroom. So I tried to find an enclosed space, and eventually I found one at the top of a wooden jungle gym type thing that few of kids ever climbed up into, had all four walls and only two entrances. I began peeing... and when I came out, everyone was waiting for me with the weirdest expression on their faces. It turned out that it wasn't waterproof, and I had basically urinated on several of my classmate's heads. They had to replace the whole jungle gym thing because of that incident. No one really talked about it or made fun of me, though... but they did all kind of keep away. Yeah.
Another incident was when my two half-brothers were talking to one another about homework, and my Dad yelled at them to shut up. I muttered "a-hole" under my breath, but he heard it and stopped the car, turned around demanding to know who said it. I admitted guilt rather than let either of them take the blame. He then stopped the car, came up to the door, and opened it. I got out of the car to stand face-to-face during the conversation, and he demanded that I remain sitting down with the door open, which upset me... and I refused to do it.
It felt wrong to have the argument in front of the kids, so I wanted to take it outside, although I couldn't articulate that. We ended up getting frustrated and shoving each other around instead; he managed to hit me in the nose by accident, and I pounded his foot with my shoe such that I knocked some of his toenails off. He finally got back in the truck and drove off without me. I started walking back to a nearby service station to call my mother to come get me, but before I could, my Dad's new wife came up in her own car, crying about me being "protective" of the kids, like she understood why I had acted that way, and saying she wished she was strong enough to do that. The REALLY embarrassing part was that later, when we were at work, he brought up the incident in front of my co-workers, and made jokes about me being dangerous and ungrateful, at my expense... and he was the boss, of course, so I just had to sit there and take that. All I could do was drink my Diet Coke a lot faster than normal.
Awkward, huh?
Another incident was when my two half-brothers were talking to one another about homework, and my Dad yelled at them to shut up. I muttered "a-hole" under my breath, but he heard it and stopped the car, turned around demanding to know who said it. I admitted guilt rather than let either of them take the blame. He then stopped the car, came up to the door, and opened it. I got out of the car to stand face-to-face during the conversation, and he demanded that I remain sitting down with the door open, which upset me... and I refused to do it.
It felt wrong to have the argument in front of the kids, so I wanted to take it outside, although I couldn't articulate that. We ended up getting frustrated and shoving each other around instead; he managed to hit me in the nose by accident, and I pounded his foot with my shoe such that I knocked some of his toenails off. He finally got back in the truck and drove off without me. I started walking back to a nearby service station to call my mother to come get me, but before I could, my Dad's new wife came up in her own car, crying about me being "protective" of the kids, like she understood why I had acted that way, and saying she wished she was strong enough to do that. The REALLY embarrassing part was that later, when we were at work, he brought up the incident in front of my co-workers, and made jokes about me being dangerous and ungrateful, at my expense... and he was the boss, of course, so I just had to sit there and take that. All I could do was drink my Diet Coke a lot faster than normal.
Awkward, huh?