School fight

Whenever I tell people stories of when I was in high school, it has always been funny stories or just some random story about how I did some good in school, never has any of my high school stories been related to violence and this isn't because I want everyone to see me as that guy who never did anything wrong in school, but rather because I was that guy who rarely did anything wrong in school.

Well, except for this one day when I almost fought with a class teacher.

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My school had just started a soccer team and seeing how I already was a member of a football team back at home, I immediately took the mantle of leadership and even took my school to our field (we didn't have a school field) back home so that they could train there. I had introduced my coach to my class teacher who was also our school coach and my home team had agreed to allow my school train there, they even offered some assistance.

Anyways, there had been this particular day where I and two of my friends had decided we weren't going to train that day with our school team because we were exhausted. So I had gone home and I thought the other two had gone home too. But the next day at school during assembly, the sport teacher had called me to the side and asked why I didn't come to training the previous day.

I had explained to him that I was exhausted but he wasn't having any of it because according to him, my other two friends were exhausted too but they both went to the training even though they didn't train. His anger was that my friend tried to be there while I who was someone important to the team didn't. But the honest truth was that I had no idea they had agreed to go after we all agreed not to, I would had either gone with them or convinced them not to go at all.

Well, he immediately brought out his cane and asked me to stretch out my hand so he could flog me on my palm. Now if I had committed an offence against the school, getting punished for it would make sense to me but here I was, about to be punished for missing just one day of practice, the same practice I volunteered for and was also seen as the school captain.

None of it was making any sense to me so I refused to stretch out my hand. And then he repeated the command again, this time a bit louder than before and I could see a couple of students attention were now drawn to us. Now even though I felt I didn't deserve to be punished for something as little as that, disobeying a teacher was an offence other teachers in the school wouldn't tolerate because they viewed disrespecting any teacher as disrespecting them, so they would back that teacher up no matter what.

So I had no choice but to stretch out my hand. But the moment he was done flogging me, I looked at him to his face and told him I was done with the school's football team and I no longer gave a shit about it. I didn't exactly say it that way, but I remember I had said it in a very rude manner that definitely should had gotten me punished but he just let me go instead and that was it.

Heaven knows that if that had happened outside the school, I would had started my WWE career with that teacher because I was so going to fight him. When I returned to the assembly, my friends tried coming up with excuses as to why they back stabbed me but I wasn't interested, all I wanted to do was fight that man if I could, but I couldn't.