When I was a kid... punishment at school involved going to sit in a corner away from the other kids. I quickly realised that if I started a fight with other kids, I could sit in the corner in the nice chair and read. I started a lot of fights.
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When I was a kid, we had scheduled fights. I don’t know why. It was called getting “called out.” Someone called you out and you had to fight them. I attended many of these and participated in just one. Some kid I knew called me out one day. I heard about it during school. I went home, changed my clothes, and showed up behind the grocery store for the fight. I punched him in the face until his nose bled and his friends stopped the fight. I don’t know why he wanted to fight. Status, I suppose.
