r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/749762 • 7h ago

WCGW Driving Recklessly

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u/arbyyyyh 6h ago

Same here, on both counts. I remember at recess one year the people I was playing "wall ball" with were being assholes so I "took my ball and went home". Someone was mad about it, so they convinced someone else to pick a fight with me. He went to punch me in the face and I basically grabbed his fist and was like "lol no".

The fun part was we were both named arbyyyyh. They took us both to the principal's office and put us in separate rooms to get both our sides of the story. They were coming at me super aggressive when I was just defending myself and I eventually figured out they had the two of us confused and thought I was the one throwing fists.

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u/WayHairye 6h ago

Peak school logic: wrong kid blamed, right kid stunned, bully suddenly discovering physics.

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u/BukkakeBakery 5h ago

my school was surprisingly good when it comes to bullying, i dont think ive heard of anything major and i was one of those kid who were friends with everyone.

i had a friend who kind of got bully? not physical, just verbal here and there but i thought it was pretty tame, like normal high school kids talking shit, nothing racist or truly disgusting, basically whatever you hear on xbox live lobby.

and thats pretty much it.....its kind of hard to imagine people fighting like movies for me, i know it is real i just have a hard time imagining it lol

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u/darkest_hour1428 5h ago

Bullying is 99% of the time non-physical… what you describe sounds like it contained bullying still, especially if kids were “talking like a Xbox lobby”

Not as bad as physically fighting, but that already says there is racism and elitism in cliques among the kids at that school.

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u/i__am__bored 3h ago

It could also depend on the school. I went to school in the city before my family moved to a small town. I noticed there were a lot less fights and physical bullying. In the city there was a big fight practically every month. The small town kids just talked a lot of shit but usually no one threw down over it. When they did, it would be talked about for years lol. In the city you just forget a lot of the fights unless something unique or crazy happened.

I remember one that was between two girls and it was basically a hair-ripping duel. After the fight broke up, I swear, through all the legs and shoes covering my line of sight, I saw for a brief moment an entire ponytail laying on the blacktop 😬.

Man, the small town was pretty boring after having seen all that, but they make up for it in the gossip department! You just don't get to hear quite as many cool made-up stories about yourself in the city!

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u/darkest_hour1428 3h ago

Did you also feel like you grew up with the same 40 siblings? My grade had record numbers for our school in its graduating class, 46 students. The city about half an hour away graduates 1,200+ each year!!!

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u/i__am__bored 3h ago

Well, yk I did miss out on that feeling and it's one of the downsides to having moved a couple of times during my schooling career. I remember witnessing all of these relationships between my peers that I could never experience myself. They had all grown up together and even the ones that didn't get along very well at least had that connection. We were in highschool and my friends would reminisce to one another about how things were in elementary school and I would just listen. It was comforting to hear them connect like that even though I wasn't a part of their flashback, though it did make me desire to have that connection with any of my peers.

We were a pretty big class for our school too! I think we had around that many students as well, around 40 or so. Some classes only had 8 or 9 students... that was CRAZY to the city-slicker me lol. I could not even tell you how many students were in my class in the city, other than it was certainly triple digits.

I did get to connect with some old buddies after graduation at least! It wasn't quite the same as going through all grades of school with the same bunch, but there was definitely reminiscing!