Don't try this at home. At least, don't do it on the bus where all the chaperones are.
During a school fieldtrip long ago, all the students became increasingly bored thus resulting in the opening of several wireless chat rooms through the use of our Nintendo DSes, which were quite popular at the time. These electronic chat rooms were set up so that we could either hand-draw pictures or use a touch-screen keyboard to type messages. As an aspiring artist (and a bit of a show off), I doodled several pictures of cute-looking Pokémon, which were my number one obsession at the time. I was having a lot of fun up until the point when kids started bashing my drawings, calling them “ugly” and “stupid.” They also made a few jabs at me for liking Pokémon in general, as it was an infamous “nerd sport” or whatever. Pokémon rules. Anyway, it eventually got to the point where I became very upset, and decided to give these fifth graders a taste of their own medicine. In one simple message, I called them all “stupid,” and felt the most accomplished I had all day.
Now, these bullies had used the word “stupid” multiple times already. I assumed it would be okay to say it back. Sure enough, right when I sent the message with the “strong fifth-grade vocabulary,” a chaperone on the bus suddenly called me out by my username (our nicknames that appeared in the wireless chats). Immediately I shut the DS off, and to be honest, if I hadn’t spoken up, they probably never would have figured out it was me. However, my guilty conscience brought me forward, and I apologized to the chaperone about ten minutes after the situation. After explaining the whole ordeal to her, she let me go without so much as a slightly irritated look.
Now, these bullies had used the word “stupid” multiple times already. I assumed it would be okay to say it back. Sure enough, right when I sent the message with the “strong fifth-grade vocabulary,” a chaperone on the bus suddenly called me out by my username (our nicknames that appeared in the wireless chats). Immediately I shut the DS off, and to be honest, if I hadn’t spoken up, they probably never would have figured out it was me. However, my guilty conscience brought me forward, and I apologized to the chaperone about ten minutes after the situation. After explaining the whole ordeal to her, she let me go without so much as a slightly irritated look.
Lesson Learned:
No matter what other people get away with, never follow their bad example. Usually, it’s the relatively innocent people who get caught first.