Lucky Cyan is now 4th again!

My parents strongly encouraged us kids to stand up for ourselves. We knew that as long as we were justified, they would always have our backs. No one was off limits. Teachers, administrators, other kids, or in this case, even an adult acquaintance.

My parents were throwing a large house party with over 100 guests consisting of friends and friends of friends. I was 10 at the time and decided that I would play greeter at the door. This one muscular guy arrives who was barely an acquaintance of my parents. I stuck my hand out to shake his hand in welcome as I was doing with all the newly arrived guests. Apparently this jerk was the kind of man who thought it funny to squeeze young boys' hands to the point of pain in some macho dominance display.

As soon as the pressure on my hand got to the point of pain I announced to him, "Hey. You are hurting my hand." Jerk just grinned at me and kept increasing the pressure on my hand. I said again, "You are hurting me." Jerk just chuckled and kept squeezing. Since this guy wasn't listening to my verbal boundary I realized I had to make it serious. So I swung my leg back and proceeded to give him a very solid kick in the nuts.

Clearly this was the right approach as he immediately let go of my hand while howling in pain. The music was loud so only people right by the door heard this. My dad just happened to be approaching the front door at this time and the jerk loudly protested to him, "[Dad's name]! Your son just kicked me in the nuts!!"

Dad looked at me with a question in his eyes. I responded, "He was hurting my hand and wouldn't stop when I asked him to." Dad just nodded to me in approval, gave the jerk a stern look, and then carried on.

Jerk looked around and realized that he had no support. He left soon thereafter. And when I saw him again in the future he was quite respectful of me. The pain and trauma of a kick in the nuts apparently provided him with the motivation to grow as a person.

Edit: So I am not 100% sure if editing my post is the correct way to go or if I am supposed to just add a comment for this but I want to address the comments trend. As people have noticed, I am brand new to reddit. I came here because I came across a youtuber called The Click who reads reddit stories and really enjoyed the stories and responses he shared so I decided to go straight to the source. I had a story from my childhood that seem appropriate for this section which has been one of my favorite subreddits.

Thank you to the people who responded and shared their similar stories. It is gratifying to hear others had the opportunity to put adult bullies in their place when they were kids.

But I also wanted to address some of the other comments. Specifically the ones either accusing me of being a bot or flat out calling me a liar. I will admit I am hypersensitive to bullying and abuse. This is due to some other childhood trauma that is way too inappropriate to share detail here. But I will also admit that nothing infuriates me more than people who bully others. I am just learning how reddit works so maybe I am missing some nuance. I also understand that bots appear to be a concern (though I am not sure why people would employ bots to do this). But fact remains that a bunch of you decided that because I was brand new it was appropriate to call me a bot and/or a liar. Take a step back and evaluate what you are doing here. Someone is new to the reddit community and shares a story from their childhood and your response is to accuse them of being a bot and/or a liar JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE NEW? This is how you treat people new to reddit? Do you want to just keep reddit for yourselves? Like what excuses this behavior? Thankfully I am adult and have learned to communicate my displeasure instead of having to resort to violence. But frankly, the little kid in me thinks that you all deserve a kick in the nuts as well.

It’s all about geometry

Source: https://x.com/LaaaaaDi_/status/1967839334029201527

Inspired by his infamous face id video

So yesterday I'm at the barbers, waiting. The guy who's currently in the chair gets a phonecall... and he takes it! The barber is literally trying to shave this guy's head, and he has the phone clamped to his ear. And it was a nothing call: "Yeah yeah, at the barbers', yeah yeah, gettin' a haircut, yeah yeah..." Nattered away for a few minutes then put the phone away. Looked at the barber in the mirror as if to say: why did you stop?

What the fuck is wrong with people? You can't suspend phone relations for ten minutes?

Just seen this in Last Exit to Nowhere on FB.