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on bees and bullying.. by (me!) sandra, tvgp.

i was at McKay's irish taphouse recently to have a cold beer, a house salad and study/read for the new bible study group i joined recently: BSF..   bsfinterantional.org.  /quick "thank you!" here to Lana..

so, im sitting at my table, trying to read and eat when a yellow jacket starts buzzing all around my food..  and my body.. and the table in general.

-pause here and reflect on how you handle the same situation..

it is as annoying as all get out..  the thing is coming up over here and then over there.. and you don't know quite where he's going to show up next..  but this one   

-one- tiny yellow jacket is interrupting an otherwise very wonderful meal and productive study time. i can no longer concentrate.

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so, i go to one of the servers.. "there is an annoying yellow jacket i can't get rid of.. do you have something.. some food, it will be attracted to i can put out to distract it?"

and so the young woman gives me a small black plastic sample size cup, with a piece of meat in it that had fallen on the floor, and would otherwise just go in the garbage..

and i set the trap on the far away side of my table..  and very quickly.. the yellow jacket started clinging to the meat..

which gave me the opportunity to cover the yellow jacket and meat cup with an extra large plastic cup, trapping the yellow jacket entirely! and then you'll never guess what happened after that:

i ate, and read, and studied in utter peace for the balance of my stay there.

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it made me think of bullies.  how easily just one or two people can ruin, and make miserable, otherwise perfectly wonderful situations..

and some people think you should just ignore;

and some people think you should endure;

and some people think you should bully back.. 

But when I remember..  the misery; the interruption; the inability to focus on school itself..

what i sure do wish...  is that someone could have found a way to just make them go away.

i could have studied and read in peace!   i rather think students deserve this..  i might even go as far as to say..  students are entitled to it!   -that navigating around and confronting violent intimidation and various types of bullying everyday is NOT

and should never be considered 'a rite of passage'

but rather..  students should be able to attend school in peace.  period. 

and so, it left me thinking..   what is analogous to the meat cup and larger plastic cup trap?

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and then i was quite entertained thinking about things like.. underground casinos; virtual life websites, strip clubs, popular drugs/clubs; red light districts...  any variety of 'meat' cup that first attracts and then traps..    -and how these places help magnetically remove, by way of distraction, exactly the people who are attracted to these things..     -from environments where those things don't exist.

posted by SHE @ 11:53 PM