First I want to say that if you plan on responding to this then read it all the way through because in this case my friend and I were NOT the jerks.
My dad lives a few hours away, on Friday and Saturday I stayed at his house along with my friend “Brian”.
On the same street there are these brothers ages 15 and 18, I had met them a few times before and we got along very well.
On Saturday night the brothers came by and Brian and I ended up going out with them to a basketball game and it seemed like we would all be good friends because we had a good time.
After the game we were on our way back home and the brothers were saying how they didn’t really want to go home because it was so early in the night.
We went to a park and played around in the dark like 4 little kids and we saw 2 men on the other side of the park talking to each other.
The younger brother says “I have seen those 2 guys before, they are faggots” and he got out a laser and pointed at them.
The guy yelled out to him “Stop pointing that light over here” and his voice was a stereotypical gay voice and the brothers laughed. I have to admit that Brian and I laughed at the way the guys voice sounded but only that first time but then the brothers kept bugging them. I asked “what if they had a laser and pointed it in your eye?” and the brothers were like “then we would kick their ass.”
They were bugging the guys so much that Brian and I left and waited by the van, Brian was like “they make us look good” and I was thinking the same thing.
The brothers finally came back to their van and we drove away. A few moments later we saw the same 2 guys walking out of the park.
The older brother went on this torrent about how disgusting “faggots” were and how he always saw these same guys making out.
The brothers drove into a parking lot and in the back of the van they had a super soaker that was already partially filled with water and the younger brother went behind some nearby trash cans and he said that he pissed in the super soaker and that if we didn’t believe him we should smell it, but of course we passed.
Later we saw the 2 guys from the park walking and I said “Don’t do what I think you’re going to do.” We were coming up behind the 2 guys real slow and as soon as we got next to the guys, the little brother squirted them. Brian and I said that it wasn’t funny and that we would get another ride home because they were the ones acting gay and the brothers teased us and said the only reason we were so offended is that we must be faggots too and Brian said “I’ll show you who the faggot is… say that to my face”. I said it wasn’t worth it and that we could get my dad to pick us up so the brothers left us and the phone that my dad gave us did not work so we were both stranded.
We came upon the 2 men and they asked us if we had pointed a light at them or if we were riding around in a van. We explained that we had nothing to do with it and that was why we were walking and the guy asked us for the license plate number but we didn’t know it so he said tell your friends that if they do that again it will be there last time.
I didn’t know exactly what that meant but we finally got to a pay-phone and called my Dad.
We got home at around 10pm but it felt like it was 1 or 2 in the morning so we both went to sleep and the today while we were leaving to come back home the brothers were apologizing to us but after walking so far at night and being lost we were not in the apologetic mood.
That’s it I’m getting a Live Journal…I always feel the need to write this pointless stuff and after I wrote it and logged off the computer I knew it would get no responses, I wouldn’t know how to respond to that.
All I could say if someone just wrote what I wrote is “Oh that’s nice”, now I know I need a live journal for all my *major * MPSIMS.
There’s Mundane Pointless Stuff, and then there’s Mundane Witless Stuff. That definitely fell into the latter category. One thing I’ve learnt about the internet over the years is that somewhere in the world, it is always the school holidays.
I agree. Especially if you had titled it differently. Something like “Stupid jerks I started to be friends with before I realized they were jerks” would have helped people who tend to skim posts realize you were not condoning what happened. If you had inserted some spaces inbetween the paragraphs, it would have been easier to read as well.
I’m glad you left them and called your dad instead. Not easy, but definitely a better choice.
Eh, I wouldn’t-if only because they’re minors and you never know how those guys might retaliate. Either way, I think this time START did the right thing. However, you might not want to use the word “gay” as an insult next time.
START, bravo for taking a moral stance, and judging from my own experience, even if it didn’t seem to make a difference this time, the two guys did notice that you didn’t think what they were doing was cool. That kind of social “punishment” adds up and over time they’ll realize that their behavior is wrong and won’t be accepted by the larger society.
But yeah, I do think you might benefit from a LiveJournal. It just seems like you post here a lot about personal incidents in your life, and that’s not really what the place is for, even MPSIMS. Anyway, I’m glad you did the right thing.
I’m proud of you for taking a stand and showing your buddies that what they were doing was wrong. I’m sure you understand by all the responses that using the term “gay” as an insult while decrying homophobia was suspect, and that it isn’t a word that should be used as an insult. You wouldn’t chew someone out for acting like a racist, and then use a racial slur while berating them for it, would you? I know that many, many kids use that term as an insult, but that doesn’t make it okay. I don’t know of any mature adults who do so… or at least I don’t associate with any who would.
But, you’ll figure it out in time, and I see this as progress. If you make a livejournal, add me to your friends list (linked from my user info screen) and I’ll keep in touch. If you like, I’ll help you work on your writing, so that sometime in the near future you can regale us with your stories without getting jumped on like the village trampoline.
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