Happy Birthday to My Sister!
Five random things I love about my sister (because obviously she is smart, beautiful, and loving):
1. She is a Lady, and her manners are impeccable even when she is with her family, except when...
2. We get the random uncontrollable giggles, especially where swordfighting tiki umbrellas are concerned.
3. She has the ability to envision a project and execute it just as she envisioned it.
4. When she was a teenager, she stood up to the bully of our bus when he was following us home from the busstop and making crude remarks.
5. She has beautiful taste in textiles.
4 comments:
Awhhh! *snuffle*
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You're upping the ante here. I won't be satisfied just putting up a funny picture for your birthday next year!
I do have some comments to add.
#2: Don't forget The Friendly Beasts.
#4: I doubt Mom was happy about replacing my busted glasses, and I still have a little knot of scar tissue in my forehead, but I believe the bully pretty much behaved himself after that, didn't he? I even remember joking around with him from time to time. Also I got to take the day after off from school. :-b
-SECP
#4 I didn't mind paying for new glasses, especially if you were standing up for yourselves and the other kids. Remember, the bully's father dragged him down to apologize, having heard about it somehow, and he offered to pay for the glasses. I let him know I was unhappy about the behavior but didn't let them pay for the glasses because I knew they couldn't afford it,and you were due for new glasses anyway. Mom
Yeah, the bully had been driving me nuts for weeks...and when he started mocking a girl on the bus for being fat, that was the last straw. (I didn't like to see people teased for fatness, and the hypocrisy of his own oily pudginess made this incident unbearable.) I told him off verbally when we got off the bus, I think, and then I guess he must have followed us down the street as A. says. Then I'd really had enough and things got violent. I lost physically, due to lack of combat experience, but I've always felt I won morally and psychologically.
-SECP
I decided that the timing of a phone call was bound to be bad, so I'd blog instead. :)
Not only do I not forget The Friendly Beasts, but who else but us would have added a verse about a bat?
I didn't realize you had a scar. I just remember you swinging your bag and the glasses hitting the road and I was terrified he was really going to fight you, but he backed down.
I guess I forgot his Dad brought him down. He did get nicer, at least to us, after that. Maybe when the future valedictorian of the school is angry enough to get in a fracas with you, you'd do better to mend your ways. Like we're the nerd mafia. I don't think he was really a bad kid, I just think no one ever stood up to him.
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