I did get bullied a lot in grade school... It was a small school and I was the new kid. The boys would stick pencils point up on my chair (after getting stabbed in the **** once, I learned real quick to look before I sat down) and generally harassed me. One day, I got cornered in the playground equipment storage room while I was getting a kickball. Two boys, Jess and Wayne, cornered me and one of them grabbed me. A right thrust punch and a left reverse punch equalled a black eye and a bloody nose. Jess had the black eye, and Wayne had the bloody nose. I grabbed the kickball and ran out, right into a teacher. The two of them got suspended for fighting, because neither would admit that a girl had beat them up. They never bothered me again, and neither did their friends. I'd tried talking things out with them several times before this incident, but unfortunately, the only language some people understand is violence. Both the bullies are in jail at this time.
The bullying wasn't really an issue for me when I decided to take martial arts a year later. I read a book that had a main character who took karate, and I thought she was SO COOL... so of course, I wanted to try it, begged and pestered my parents until they finally took me around to different schools (I think they gave in so I would shut up about it and stop driving them crazy). I've learned so much more than I had ever dreamed I would.
The book was "Children of the Night" by Mercedes Lackey... and if you like fantasy and haven't read any of Mercedes' work, RUN to your nearest bookstore or library.
:rofl: Quote from movie "The Replacements".
