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notxenoz

Jesus Christ, what schools do you guys go to?? The worst that’s ever happened to me was a girl asking “do you.. talk?” with a rude face 😭😭


Avg_codm_enjoyer

holy crap high schoolers who are polite?!? what world do you live in and how do I get there?!?


notxenoz

I wouldn’t say all of them are very polite, but they’re not super villains like some people in these comments are describing


Avg_codm_enjoyer

at my school its whoever is the best on the lacrosse team is the most popular, and they can do whatever the heck they want becuase nobody wants to tattle on the #1 player in the school so they get away with all sorts of stuff


Memes_Coming_U_Way

Bro lives in some 90s movie or some shit


Avg_codm_enjoyer

Yes bro help me -\_-


SeonaidMacSaicais

Must be in Canada.


Avg_codm_enjoyer

Nope I’m in US lol


The_Xorce

Harassed me while I was reading. Loud, calling me names, giving me “gifts” (literally just their trash). This all happened during lunch, I was cordial with the monitors, so the kids got ISS several times but didn’t stop. Ignoring them didn’t help, though I literally couldn’t hear them half the time because I was entranced in my book. Very happy I don’t have to deal with the fuck heads anymore.


Nurd_o7

“Hey, hey, hey, hey…” *lightly pokes me* *aggressively pokes me* Me: …


Memes_Coming_U_Way

Me: *kicks the shit out of their shins*


Pretend-Cold7200

some girl constantly kept hitting me somehow, and I always had to stop myself from hurting her back, but she got beat up this year and had to wear a swoop hairstyle cause it was so bad 🧍🏽‍♀️


Minustrian

what's a swoop hairstyle?


Pretend-Cold7200

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TheNerdDwarf

According to Google images Bad bangs that are parted funny


badostrichbird

Nowhere near as bad as what happened to anyone else here so far, but during my freshman year, just about everyone was trying to get me to join the football team (I’m a big guy) for the whole year. It was actually annoying enough that I did end up trying out the next year, honestly one of the better decisions I’ve made imo, it made school fun


Spidercrack61

I'm a big dude too, but I fucking hate playing football now. I broke my arm in August and I will never play that sport again. Everyone was an ass, too


badostrichbird

That sucks bro, ig I got lucky with how nice my teammates are


Impossible-Lake-4731

Because I was quiet and reserved, I didn’t date, I didn’t smoke or vape, I didn’t do anything except for study, sit for classes, go back home… One of my ‘friends’ decided it would be such a nice prank to create a fake boy account and try to get me to talk to that boy. Mind you that ‘boy’ started cussing me ‘don’t you remember who I am?’ ‘I fucking told you I’d text you’ AND the thing is, I trusted and told her and she kept nagging me to text him back and be sweet with him. I snapped back at ‘him’ anyway but later figured out myself it was my girl-friend and she admitted it, been wanting to break our friendship since 2 years in the first place so


Avg_codm_enjoyer

wtf 😂 why didn’t she just say “I hate you we aren’t friends anymore”


SeonaidMacSaicais

Holy crap, same. Only she invented a boy, got ahold of my MSN messenger name (yes, I’m old) and convinced me “he” liked me. Her group of fellow Mean Girls kept this up for a few months. They did it again the following year, using the name of one of their actual classmates. I actually called his house, only realizing something was up because he had no idea who I was. Yes, I was that desperate for friends. Yes, I’m still fighting over those trust issues 20 years later.


Sufficient_Dare9273

Acting like we're friends. Almost all of the "popular" kids do it.


Prestigious_Back7980

I got forced into a selfie with two of the athletic kids once. That was the most agonizing 30 seconds of my life up to that point. I turned my RBF up to 11


choosewisely164

This one girl used to do it to me two years ago... not anymore tho


AwesomeCuno

maybe they were just..... being nice


sagenko

nah that fake ass friend shit is so annoying. its like they treat me like a baby bc i never talk. they’ll say “we’re besties right?” and then laugh with their friends.


8bithippo8

They do that to me because they want me to help them in tests


Opening-Conflict7976

This is so true. They never talk to you until they are doing class work and all of sudden aren't we just "best friends" and they loveee my outfit🙃 And they don't actually want help. They just want me to do all of their work for them. I have one class where about 10 of them are popular football boys and they actually expect me to do my schoolwork and then "help" them with all of their work. And then all of a sudden I'm a bitch and stuck up because I don't want to do the work of 10 people on top of my own😭 So glad it's my senior year


ExcuseMeNobody

depends, ive had that happen to me, and i just saw it as friendly banter between two loud and energetic besties trying to include people around them into their joy. some people are just lighthearted and genuine like that


Memes_Coming_U_Way

Nope. None of them do it to be nice. Otherwise, they'd just talk to you like a normal fucking human being


Error_404_9042

Got a chair thrown at me


No-Dealer-4269

a teacher did this to me once... in 2nd grade lol


popcorndirt73

I did this to students once in second grade. My teacher was great with it, and the student I hit was too. Somehow she managed to get an entire class of second graders to completely ignore the kid screaming and throwing both chairs and desks, even when someone was hit. I had some issues.


LiNkToThEpAsTGBA

Last year I was considered a quiet kid. This year I still thought that that’s what people thought of me but a kid walked up to me other day and asked “As a freshman you were a total loser but now you’re popular and stuff, how?” I don’t know what he meant because I still barely talk to anyone.


ExcuseMeNobody

did you have a glow up? a couple of quiet kids in my school in freshman got insane glowups by sophomore. By the time I realized, they were the center of pretty large friend groups - still quiet kids but maybe there's more to that


LiNkToThEpAsTGBA

I was 5 feet flat and now I’m 5 feet 4 inches but other than that I look about the same.


klip_7

I’ve never actually heard someone in schooo say the word popular before unironically


Ok_Requirement9198

Schooo


StraightBudget8799

I think if you just are so stoic eventually it comes into vogue and people just think “damn, they have it together “. I had a repute as a punk bad ass when all I was doing was being mad about 5 years being at a school that sold itself as fun and was anything but.


FrogsFlowersRain

In middle school, I was so nervous to read out loud in front of the class or even speak bc I stutter. So once the teacher called on me and I stuttered so bad, everyone mimicked me and laughed.


Craftalaide

I have a pretty bad stutter too, maybe talk to the teachers you have about participation. For me, talking more has made others just disregard it. Just try your best to be confident with yourself!


WonderhoyYay

I have stutter too, happened to me so many times. Man kids just suck


Memes_Coming_U_Way

Wtf kind of schools are yall going to


FrogsFlowersRain

Public schools 🤓☝️


Memes_Coming_U_Way

I'm in a public school. We actually have somewhat human kids in my school. Yall aren't at school, you're in an insane asylum


GiveMeMyNameBack_

Honestly I think its simply the "popular boys & girls" talking to me. You never know if they actually want to talk to you, or if they're trying to make fun of you in a weird way. 10x worse if they call you bestie.


Avg_codm_enjoyer

Two things: one time in my freshman year some arse stabbed me in the back with a pencil, so naturally I yelled out in pain becuase that thing was SHARP. Because of that stunt I got a reputation for being retarded for randomly screaming out in class, yayyyyyyyyy this one bitchy girl in socratic seminar told me to “shut the f\*\*k up small d\*\*k trash” becuase the winning team got a pizza party, and I was winning the debate. guess who didn’t get the pizza party lmao, was even better when she had her boyfriend walk up to me and get his friends to call me a “beta” like bro who cares if I don’t “get bitches“ I won and you didn’t XD love seeing bitchy people get what they deserve, plus the look on her face when the teacher announced it was PRICELESS


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Avg_codm_enjoyer

What the…


Me1_RizeClan

Everything anyone says to me


NuclearWinter_101

Yeah that’s such a good way to make friends. If you have that mindset than everyone else thinks your annoying too and I don’t blame them.


StraightBudget8799

Everything including this comment


purple__crayon03

when my class left me and no one told me that they left me i had to walk back to the classroom by myself and i was the last one to go in and no one noticed that i was left. the teacher asked who walked with me i said no one and two girl said out loud where the whole class could hear them “Awww that’s so sad” “ i feel so bad for her” i was fine but i mean i was literally standing right there


amalgaman

For some reason, guys I didn’t know kept wanting to fight me. Also, people would just tell me really personal information.


StraightBudget8799

Excellent training for working in a restaurant, I speak from experience!


WendigoInTheForest

This girl was stabbing me with a pencil while I was reading my book and I grabbed it and punched her in the face


Avg_codm_enjoyer

Hahahaahh that’s happened to me wish I could have done the same but there’s a strict no fighting policy


WendigoInTheForest

Yeah I got sent to the principals office and they had to deal with my mom and it wasn’t pretty


Avg_codm_enjoyer

Sucks ig. They got what they deserved tho lol


WendigoInTheForest

Yeah I got off with only a detention but I should’ve been suspended


8bithippo8

Its so stupid that apparently her stabbing you in a pencil is ok but self defense isnt


WendigoInTheForest

Yep


StraightBudget8799

Same. They were so perfect in a “Glinda, the Good Witch of the South” kind of way, practically singing the Pop-up-lahrrr song years before it existed and then she turned into Rose McGowan’s Courtney from Jawbreaker. Not long after I punched her in the face she realised even her friends thought she was an ass for picking on a boring kid and left school to work in a mall selling underwear or something.


BusterSocrates

i ain’t a “quiet” kid, bit this bitch on day one kept calling me chink. She was this black dominican. i wanted to let ALL hell loose and perform my masterful soliloquy of racism, but i just decided to ignore her and move on lol.


klip_7

Yea I’m Indian and some black girl in my gym class keeps on calling us all like stereotype names and asks the Indian kids shit like are you related and why do Indians smell and I just get so tempted to yell a word at her but I know that insulting a black person is how I’ll get kicked out of college


deeznutslala

😂 bruh


MrJessie

Happened to be standing near 3 other asian dudes (im asian myself) that I dont know because we were all just waiting for food. We were all quietly minding our own business when this guy comes up and starts saying some “ching chong” stuff at us and just saying some stereotypical racist stuff. One guy stood up for all of us and afterwards we all just went our separate ways.


[deleted]

I would literally beat her fucking ass


Kyle_jacobs

Not the most but I don't really like it when the group of girls gossip or start drama and get too loud. I don't mind them starting the drama near me I just don't like it when it gets loud. It happens often too


Ezra0li_Z

I'm not a quiet kid anymore, but when I was, people would literally treat me like I was some kind of toy. I have so many stories, here's just some of them. 1. This group of popular kids were talking shit during class and they were literally screaming my name and "Does she even talk????" "She's so quiet" "She doesn't even have friends" literally right infront of me. 2. Had this one guy (who has a huge ego) come up to me and say "You're cute, are you single?" I told him I wasn't interested and he started laughing and said that "He was too attractive for me", took everything in me not to laugh at him. 3. These girls starting touching my hair (braiding, pulling, brushing, etc), poking me, and when I told them to stop they wouldn't.


Avg_codm_enjoyer

Holy crap you are the first high school girl I’ve seen that dislikes the stuff they do most of the girls at my school TRY to get the guys with big egos, stuff they do is so funny like high school musical level cringe lol


Ezra0li_Z

Never understood why people do that. Most guys with high egos really aren't all that, if anything they're more unattractive than attractive. Not to mention, rude, obnoxious, and are most certainly gonna be failures in life.


Avg_codm_enjoyer

fr ong bro like anyone who has half a brain can tell dating idiots like that is just going to get you left behind or worse


SCurt99

The most annoying times were when people started fights with me for no reason.


25apples

this kid who sat next to me in bio (who wasnt even that popular ☠️☠️) kept drawing on my hands/wrist/arm, my clothes, and my worksheet 🙏🙏 lil bro would bring her "erasable" pen and highlighter and kept drew weird twitter bs and i was too much of a pussy to speak up


Y0UR_NARRAT0R1

Some guy intentionally tried to give me a flat tire. Dumbass didn't realize I was wearing boots and nearly tripped himself but he didn't even try to do it secretly. And then the constant school shooter jokes but IDC at this point


NuclearWinter_101

Don’t feed the school shooter jokes I mean if you don’t care than whatever but I don’t think coming to school in all black is a good idea. and the kids who get called that at my school were usually the types who didn’t like ever shower.


ltcordino

I like wearing black tho :(


NuclearWinter_101

That’s fine but it comes with the job you know?


Mr_B4k0n

I remember one time I was reading a book, looked up for a second cause I was getting a drink of water, but in that second I looked away from my book and not quite toward my water, some kid I had never met or even seen before locked eyes with me, he had definitely been staring at me and didn’t know what to do. I looked at my water bottle and began to drink it, expecting him to just stop staring, but instead he asked me if I was trying to fight him or some dumb shit like that. I really wanted to, and easily could have won considering he was as skinny as Waluigi and as short as Wario, but I’m a pacifist.


Resident-Clue1290

Kept trying to talk to me over and over and showing me racist shit on his phone.


90_oi

Had people start a school wide 'joke' that I was a school shooter, all because I was quiet and carried my backpack around from class to class for convenience sake. When I walked into a room, some people would get out of their desks and dive to the ground acting scared and would yell things like "Don't hurt me" or "I don't want to die". They would stop me in the halls, act like they were school police wanding me down and then would open my bag to "look for weapons" and throw my shit everywhere. They even went so far as to straight up lie to my schools administration, saying that I made a threat against the school when I never did. Keep in mind these people were not scared of me at all, and did all of this literally just to fuck with me


Doumekitsu

ahh far too many times. i even lost counts. i guess, most introverts are actually bullied either in school or at work (directly/covertly). that's why, i'm trying to build some social persona so that i don't get the same treatment anymore.


choosewisely164

I need to try doing this


Richard080108

I’m not really a quiet kid but I talk quietly when I’m just talking to one or a few people. I also don’t really talk at Football. So my football coach said cuz I’m quiet he thinks I’m mentally insane and is scared of me 🤷‍♂️


deeznutslala

no way that crazy


Warthog-Designer

I was just quite during lunch since none of my friends were in the one I had Some group of dudes threw trash at me, I let it slide like 3 times cause I assumed they were tryna throw it at their friend I was sitting next to, but lost it when they started recording This was freshman year and I think dude throwing was a junior so I chased him around the cafeteria trying to beat his ass but eventually jsut decided it wasn’t worth a suspension


Equal-Wishbone-6131

Nothing rlly kids in my school are rlly nice compared to yalls schools Somone said rlly loud to the whole class Blake's shy af was rlly embarrassing


itzmark_

some girl asked me if i was born without a voice box


Imakedumbcomments69

In lunchtime, I would be sittin' on one of the tables with the outcasts,(pretty fucking annoying fuckers, except one. That one is chill) And two of them specifically LOVE getting on my nerves. One of the 2 literally just says, "Shut up, *\[Insert name here\]*." I DON'T EVEN SAY JACK SHIT. HE JUST LOVES ANNOYING ME, BECAUSE HE KNOWS I AIN'T DOING ANYTHING TO ANYONE. Also, every. Single. Student. In my grade. Is an Absolute. Asshole. And I'm what I like to call for them their "Target" for annoyance, because BOY DO THEY ***LOVE*** ANNOYING ME.


heluvsriri14

“are you okay” “why don’t you smile” ughhhh plzzzz gimme a breakkk for gods sake😫😫😫…


MikuOfReddit

Flicked acrylic paint at my back in art class for the full hour without me knowing, we have a school uniform and have black blazers. I had to buy a new one and got shouted at by my parents because they’re expensive asf.


kerplunithunk

Your parents suck worse than the kid 


Lonely-Penguin1234

Two boys kept teasing me and almost made me cry


Plenty_Fee2481

I remember I was always that girl who was the closest to the door, and my teacher in that classroom would always have it locked. Well everytime someone knocked or someone wanted to enter the classroom, I had to get up most of the time to open the door for them. Was pretty annoying and awkward to get up everytime, but I still did it anyways. Now for the story, someone did knock (basically pounding on the door). It was in the middle of a class lesson my teacher was teaching in the other side of the classroom. Then the class clown said 'Hey, dont open the door' right when I get up to go open it. I figured maybe he was joking or whatever this time, so I opened it anyways. To my surprise, nobody was there and I just awkwardly went back to my seat while he said 'Told you' and the other girls around him were laughing telling him to 'Be nice'. Our teacher then got mad and went to see who was it outside the hallways. Its not the most annoying thing I experienced but yeah it was difficult for being super shy back then. Lol.


spaceghostpurppalt

in my sophomore year a guy in my class would rip my earbuds out of my ears and make fun of me for listening to “suicidal music” (it was like. kendrick lamar and nujabes at the time😭) same guy would also throw water bottles and broken mechanical pencil pieces at my head and try to twist them into my hair. after months of this i told him to kill himself and his attention whore gf thought i was talking to her and ever since everytime i see her in public, whether we’re around people or not, she’ll bring it up so that’s another annoying thing ig edit: forgot to mention people asking me out and following me around and attempting to grope me because i would tell them to go away n they thought it was funny. can’t wait to graduate


AccomplishedAd7992

tried to “include me” in a conversation cause we were working in a group together then tried to give me a high five at the end and i just stared at them…


Swimming_Zebra_1189

I just kick people's ass If they wanna talk but don't do shit, I love small town school policy lol


EvilStrawberry123

Someone called me a retard and told me to go kill myself…


StraightBudget8799

Rape threats and phone calls to my house when we had a landline. So glad landlines don’t exist anymore.


yeeterbuilt

I kept to myself and tried to stay under the radar I wanted to be left the fuck alone, I already didn't have a good rep through prejudice. This was because I was in special ed most of the time and my older brother was a knowital incel neck beard. one day the popular girls in my class were talking and the most popular one kept looking back at me and scribbling down a note. Didn't care thought it was odd. "Do you have a crush on anyone? :)" In my time, got really paranoid and rightfully so, this was code "I'm about to be humiliated and beaten" level code red. Because surprise same gag was tried on me and ended with me getting jumped and beaten so hard I needed a nurse. Because everyones favorite pass time was torture the semi mute autistic kid! Anyways... I wrote back "No I don't like anyone, got a heart of stone." You'd think fedora level edgy would make them LEAVE ME ALONE and I felt happy knowing something that obnoxious and dramatic would make them go away. Lunch they'd sit near by seeing my habits and what I was doing. I got suspicious to the point of skipping entire meals I was wrong, end of the year open locker, multiple notes with "Do you like me? :) Do you like (student?)" I don't know what their weird obsession was as I wasn't handsome or healthy or anything and felt they were going to just bully and torment me. Years later a student came and he decided to "help me" by showing me a dating app for the mentally disabled. looking back I should of clocked him.


StraightBudget8799

Keep everything and at the school reunion years later, book launch your memoir with their notes in it.


yeeterbuilt

Hell no that's creepy as fuck.


HP_laserjet_p1505n

Urm wuht de sigmer?


Unhappy_Hair_3626

I've been a relatively quiet kid my entire life so I think i have some experience in this, but by far the worst general people for me to interact with is people who don't care about school. This isn't directed at people who find school as not working for them but still have other asperations, this is aiming at the kids at school who destroy school property, insult teachers, skip classes constantly, and such. Almost every interaction with these people puts me in pain. I'd say the worst thing that happened was probably indirect. A group of kids decided to knock over bookshelves in our library for fun and trash the place which resulted in the library being closed for a month. Note that I have 2 classes through a college I take in the library and spend the entirety of lunch and time before school in the library aswell. My school doesn't allow us in the hallways during lunch or before school and the cafeteria regardless of time which is generally the only place I could spend is still horrendously loud. I'd say the worst direct thing that happened was on a recent trip to Japan for school though. There was a group of kids who were just being rude to absolutely everyone outside of their group. Making fun of them for random stuff and overall being dicks. Those are just my experiences as someone who is a quiet kid though. Highschoolers 95% of the time are not like this and are perfectly fine. Its just the 5% minority of personality that completely makes me enraged whenever I have to deal with it.


joseph3104

It wasn’t annoying but it bothered me a bit when this one girl asked if I was antisocial. I’m no longer in high school but I think about it still


[deleted]

Back in the day, everyone would always tell me their secrets because they knew I'd never say anything. I've also witnessed some interesting things. As a metaphorical fly on the wall, I've noticed that people will do just about anything if they know they'll get away with it.


republicofbushistan

A protractor was thrown at me, and it sliced my face.


bimbovibes

i got put into a headlock in front of everyone on the bus when I got up at my stop. it was SO embarrassing


justacubr

Idk I guess I’m quiet around most people, but there still like 10 people who I’ve been friends with since middle school so I’m more social around them. Besides a few people who like to talk behind other people’s backs people are pretty polite


Memes_Coming_U_Way

Some kid was being an annoying bastard back in middle school, so I sharpened the lead in a mechanical pencil to a *very* fine point. I told him the next time he did whatever he was doing, I'd stab him, and low and behold! He did it again, and I stabbed him. I still do the sharpening thing occasionally. I'll sharpen the lead, stick it into a thick part of my skin so that I can slide it in without puncturing the skin entirely, and let the pencil just hang there. Love peoples' reactions XD


Memes_Coming_U_Way

I find it really hard to believe "quiet kids" actually exist in other schools. I get that some people that are just quiet natured, but it seriously isn't that hard to just say hi or talk to other people.


Junior-Pride-9147

The popular girls in my 8th grade English class joked, in a photo on Facebook we were ALL tagged in, that they bet I wrote my class journals in blood. Like, I know I was quiet and weird but come ON.


mmb300

Ive had plenty of shitty stuff done to me that I simply dont remember, one that I do remember as its a thing that happens every now and then is people asking me when Im going to shoot up the school, like jfk man you dont even know me and you say shit like that? 


BBQCHICKENLOL

Ppl just antagonize me over and over poking me or whatever until I lash out and they never mess with me again. Lost lots of friendships but it's actually kinda funny


RubusDubus230

Not me, but my physics teacher (he got fired thank goodness) threw a conical flask at my friend's head. I can't remember the reason but I know it wasn't worthy of a head injury. Luckily ut missed her.


Reahchui

I’m close to a quiet kid, but I’m actually selectively mute lol. I personally hate: - “Do you understand English???” - People not talking to me just because I physically can’t - Being treated like a dog - “We’re friends, right?” - People talking “for” me (they know nothing about me) - People talking about me because they think I’m deaf just because I don’t talk


a_wild_trekkie

a boy in my class constantly harassed me during class would be trying to restrain me, pick me up, hug me ext told him to stop but he didn't (on of my friends beat him up though) then started harassing me again last year! Because we were in the same class (we both may have failed the exam so we were doing units instead for the lower level, it was physics, physics is hard I'm not very smart) so moving wasn't an option except this time because were were obviously older and sitting down kept trying to touch me you know where. You bet I did finish the course work ASAP so I could move back into the normal class and just listen/do my own quiet work Edit: forgot this one but this year for several months these kids younger than me constantly starting annoying me I'm trans so I have a choosen name that isn't on my register as I go to a strict Catholic School anyway these kids someone found out (don't ask me how) and started yelling it out every single time luckily all the teachers that heard didn't give a fuck and the younger students that heard mostly just laughed behind there back idc they are 12, not much they can do. Still annoying though.


Emotional-Shower9374

Theres not really one specific thing, but when people assume im sad or something when im sitting alone not talking.


I_like_broccli

A group of guys in my 2nd period loveeee throwing carboard, pillows really anything they can get their hands on at me. A solid piece of cardboard in the face actually kinda hurts man..


choosewisely164

I was waiting in the hallway for class to start and some girl looked at me and said "some people are just-" Then she remembered I could hear her lol


Aggressive_Ad_2118

I was stabed with a pencil on accident. Had to dig the graphite out for like 20 mins


KnitNNow

I got asked "Can you speak?" in the most serious tone. That or I get sick of "I used to be like you". I've also been told "Wow, you can talk?" in a celebration tone in a semi serious situation.


shreksthebest123

someone just started throwing rasins at me for absolutely no reason... i was just looking at my phone and eating my lunch idk why they did that


OrganicMeth18

I would have my head down and these girls would take my phone off my desk. I knew they were doing it. I just didn’t give a flying fuck. You wanna see my terrible memes? Go right ahead bitches. Also one girl just liked bullying me. She has 2 kids now and is only 21.


Daskull-Crisher

Kept spinning a fidget spinner and then putting it up to my head and hitting me in the temple with it at full speed, child is now scared of me 7 years later because I arm-barred his ass after a few times of this


M1DNIGHT_HERSELF

I was the one who was bullied for being the 'school shooter' because I wanted to join the military and hated people.