There was an afternoon where I was having a disagreement in
the playground with one of the other girls. I came home to complain about it to
my mom (“I’m going to tell my mom on you!”), but my mom wasn't interested in
resolving my sandbox problems. She absentmindedly told me to dump sand on the
girl’s head.
It was all the confidence I needed. I stomped back out and
shoveled sand as fast as I could into a bucket, the girl taunting me all the
while, “What are you going to do now, huh? Huh?”
She was shocked when I poured the entire
bucket over her head. There was sand everywhere
– in her hair, down her shirt, in her mouth and eyes. This time, she was the
one to run home and cry to her mom.
When she came back, she had a cup of water
that she threw at me, literally; but instead of holding onto the cup and letting
the water splash me, she'd let go and clocked me in the forehead with it.
Christine and I kept her cup and spent the rest of our
playground time making an elaborate drink of nasty berries, sand and water. We
were convinced we could get her to drink it.
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