the dumbest thing i've ever done happened back in the days when i was about 8 y
old. i was a pupil in the 3rd grade at primary school. on my way to school i often
encountered three older boys who used to make fun of me and often pushed me
around, annoying me to the worst.
i didn't have the heart to tell my parents or the teachers, because i'd have felt like a
coward then. instead, one day i took a little plastic knife with me in order to scare
off my threateners when they try to mock on me once again.
as they come along i pulled my "weapon" out and told them to leave me alone.
in this very moment my strategy seemed to work fine. they looked kinda pissed,
but turned away and let me pass (obviously not noticing it was a toy that i was
holding against them - or at least they pretended not to notice!).
i was proud to have managed getting myself out of this situation and hoped this
unpleasant fuzz was finally over and done with.
but unfortunately, more problems arouse. about two days after my fierce act of
defense, i was sitting in class while our teacher was doing some math exercises.
suddenly the door opened and the older boys' teache came in. not only him, but
the whole damn class including my three adversaries who has started this conflict
in the first place.
they all looked at me very grimly while their teacher told aloud what has happened.
the problem was, he expressed THEIR version of the incidents which was like i have
threatened them with a REAL knife for no reasons, DENYING to ever have mocked at
me in any way!! then my own classmates turned around and reproachfully looked at
me like i was a criminal. any of my attempts to rectify the plot of happenings were
ignored as lies, needless to say i had no wittnesses to prove my innocence.
i had a discussion with my teacher in his office afterwards, where i fortunately could
convince him of the fact, that what the tree older boys had told on me was not
true. later he told my classmates, because otherwise they would have excluded
me from their community for sure. some believed me, some did not. so i had to
face several months filled with rejection and prejudice.
if i had told anybody about the conflict with the three roughnecks before, things
would probably have not gone that far. this were definitely the dumbest
circumstances i ever caused...
