When I was 8 I went down the street to an ice cream window. I got a double scoop of mint chocolate chip in a waffle cone!! I skipped home merry as could be, but as I was getting closer to my house there were three 10 yr olds on bicycles coming right for me.
It was horrible! They demanded for me to give them directions to the ice cream shop. I was busy eating my ice cream!!! I didn't want to take the time to stop licking that delicious goodness that eludes me all to often to give these big boys directions. They kept following me and asking me where I got the ice cream. Things were getting brutal, they were getting angrier and angrier, but my ice cream was starting to melt!!! If I stopped eating it now, it would run down the side and get my hands all sticky, so I ate faster.
They started turning up the heat on the bullying now.. They said things like,"PLEASE tell us where you got the ice cream, it's so hot". I would not bow to their will. I do not let bullies run my life, I eat faster with more ferocity. I'm halfway through my second scoop, and there was no danger of sticky fingers happening. All I had was my resolve. "We'll give you a dollar each if you just tell us where to go!! PLEAAAAAASE!!!".
I'm terrified now. If I wait any longer to chomp into the chocolate waffle cone chocolate covering could start to melt and I'd have it all over my face. I hesitate no longer. I take a huge bite that decimates half the cone with one fair swoop. I had made it. No melted chocolate. I'm at my front door now, I have one bite left, I turn and see the three boys now all off their bikes on their knees before me begging, " We really want an ice cream too!! Why won't you tell us?!?!"
I take that last satisfying piece of cone left and shove it into my mouth.
I walk inside.
I had won.
Never let a bully win guys. Never.