Hollywood/Bollywood
I went to boarding school. Not lardy-da boarding school, it was a state school with a boarding house which had a lot of kids whose parents were in "the forces".

Anyway, joining in the second year didn't help things greatly and the fact that being taller than most people stood me out as a challenge.

In some kind of weird Street fighter-esque competition I had to fight the other kids in my dorm to see where I fell in the hardness pecking order.

Well not even going to start glamorising fighting as invariably people think that it will be some Hollywood style punch up before scrabbling on the floor with a bloody nose.

However, I had got myself up "the ranks" and now had to fight an Indian kid who was considerably smaller than I was but second-hardest out of the fifteen or so of us. All was set up, ensuing baying crowd, us circling one another - but we didn't fight. There was no point and we had nothing but a stupid "who's hardest" thing to fight about. None of the "weaker" mob were going to start a fight with us individually, and the "hardest kid" wouldn't start on us both at once.

We are still friends fifteen years on.

Don't get me wrong, there are times when people push you to a point where it is better to do something, but don't let anyone force you into fighting for the sake of it.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Fri 10 Mar 2006, 11:24, Reply)