Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc.
I am fascinated, not by the first day of school as that usually goes OK. We have our usual how do we find our way around who are my friends drama.
The part I found nerve-racking is finding your seat in the cafeteria. I even think about that at the first day of a job and other situations.
However, I remember an incident in eighth grade. That’s one of those ages where your behavior can go anywhere. I sat down with four people I didn’t know. Immediately they did not like me. They started giving me a hard time about what I was wearing, my hair while I was sitting there. I knew nothing about these people and they knew nothing about me.
I sat and ate my lunch quietly. Every day, the teasing became less and less, and after about a week they started engaging with me.
Against the run of play we became rather good friends. If I think back on it, we became close friends.
The following year and I chose not to sit at that table. We still remained friends.
This is no fable. If there is a lesson to be learned, I don’t know what it is. I probably should’ve told them to f-ck off.
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