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homewrecker  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is your lame claim to fame?  ·  
When I started the 9th grade my school bus kept on a guy who had failed the previous year. He was in adult ed and the bus route would drop him off at the adult ed center before it brought us to school. As the year progressed he got more and more bizarre. First it started out with him being loud and obnoxious. Then he was drinking on the bus and several times got so drunk that he started crying and begging his ex girlfriend to take him back. This guy was a total head case.

Then one day he shows up with a shaved head, doc martens and he didn't speak at all for a week. One day out of the blue he started going this huge rant about how the Jews were the reason this bad thing was happening and that bad thing was going on. The bus driver couldn't hear him because the skinhead sat at the back of the bus. He just kept going on and on and on. Nobody said anything. We all looked at each other, making faces in disbelief that he was doing this. But nobody was going to say anything. So I got up and told him, pardon my french, to "shut the fuck up, you skinhead piece of shit." Everyone was staring, and he stood up and started yelling back about how the way he dresses doesn't hurt anybody. It's a lifestyle choice. He's being persecuted for the way he looks. So we back and forth for a while before our bus driver finally hears whats going on and stops the bus. He's a native from Newfoundland, "he knows what it like to be persecuted." The skinhead was berated by our driver, and didn't fight back at all.

The next day he was transferred to another bus because his mom threatened to sue the school if they banned him completely from the bus service.

It's not that big of a deal. I know most people have probably done bigger things in their lives. But this was a defining moment in who I am. I'm really proud that I was able to stand up when no one else would.





ou812dot  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·  
nice work. hopefully there was another brave person on his next bus, and his next, and his next.
homewrecker  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I hope that he grows out of whatever he's going through. From what I can tell the guy didn't have the best home life, so I can see why he would have problems. I hope he's moved past this hateful mentality.
ou812dot  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Good outlook, I hope he's turned himself around too. You know, with a name like "homewrecker", you're surprisingly decent :)
forwardslash  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Reminds me of the racist tree.
ou812dot  ·  4648 days ago  ·  link  ·  
thank you. I thought this deserved being an actual post and not just a link in the comments so I posted it http://hubski.com/pub?id=30826
winston  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·  
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing". Well done, have a badge.
homewrecker  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Thanks, no matter what went down that day, even if it meant getting beaten I'm glad I stood up for what I believed in.
winston  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·  
These are the moments in life that "test your mettle"