> Kids, especially the males, can be opportunistic little animals. > Girls do it differently I guess - more emotional torture (I'm speculating > here), but with the guys it was always a physical thing, but once they knew > they no longer had an easy target or were in risk of being dropped on their > head, they suddenly got real polite-like. I think it's vile and a sad > testament to our culture. I never got super-muscular, but I DID get a best-friend who was a football player-type (odd, that we were friends), and that kept me from getting into too much trouble. Martial arts helped, but by then I never had a need to use it (and I'm grateful for that!). Chris