Posted by richard on December 10, 2005, 6:34 am
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When I was 11 I started attending a Grammar School outside of the borough in which I lived. Because the school was out of borough, I had to get a bus to and from. Anyway, when I got off the bus at my stop a group of lads from a local state school also got off. It became common practice to berate me during the walk home. There was normally three of them and I’d guess that they were a little older than I was. This went on for months and months and started the very first day of secondary school.
It slowly escalated and finally they confronted me. I had got off the bus like usual and the three of them followed me (as usual). I could here the usual comments “who does he think he is”; “####ing snob”; “look at that uniform”; “look at his shoes” etc. Then one of them shouted “what’d you pay for them shoes?”; I just ignored and continued walking. He then shouted it again and I continued walking. They were starting to become agitated at my refusal to acknowledge them. All of a sudden one of them stepped around the front of me, stopping me in my tracks. “I asked you a question, what’d you pay for them shoes”, I looked down nervously at my feet, I told him that they weren’t expensive. “hand them over” was his reply. It was at this point that I tried to run by the other two grabbed me and pinned me to a fence. “strip him” was the next shout. They took my shoes and all I could do was watch as one of them removed the laces and put them in his pocket, he then proceeded to rip at the shoe-tongue, trying to tear it out. He then tossed the shoes over a fence. They then continued to strip me until I was naked waist down, throwing my clothes over the fence. It was the most humiliating thing. When they finally let me go, I had to struggle climbing the fence and collect my clothes from this strangers garden. Luckily, my shirt hung down quite low so I wasn’t displaying too much. But when I finally collected my shoes, I discovered that the tongues were partially torn out and the shoes were ruined. I couldn’t lace them because they had run off with the laces and my belt. As a result, I started taking a later bus.
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