What made you go from innocent bystander to full-blown aggressor?

I lived with random roommates one summer in college.

This one guy used to regularly wake up to his alarm, hit snooze and then managed to leave for the day without ever turning the damn thing off.

He always locked his door and it would just go off endlessly.

I complained about it constantly, and he'd still never

managed to turn it off. It woke me up an hour earlier than needed every single day, and it was

driving me insane. Finally, one day he forgot to close his door, so I took the radio, disassembled it,

removed the speaker, and then put it all back together and set the correct time. I think he missed a

couple of quizzes because of it, but screw it, he deserved it.

He finally got a new alarm which had a much shorter snooze timer and it never happened again.

It was awesome.

This is my high school bully story.

I was a big kid growing up, but a real softie.

You could tell by looking at me that even though I was

5'11 and 210 pounds at the age of 12, that I wouldn't do anything. I got picked on a lot as a result.

The smaller bullies got major props by making me tear up. One day, the kid who sat behind me in

class had been flicking me in the back all day, and I finally

asked the teacher to stop him. She said, and I still frickin' remember this at 25,

Are you going to cry now? In the most disgusted sounding voice an adult can level at a child.

I was crushed by the adult figure responding in that way, and deeply shaken. Fifteen minutes later,

my bully, having been affirmed by

the teacher pretty much, decided he'd walk by me and break my pencil. I didn't go into a fit

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