re: Grab your popcorn for today: G Chambers vs. John Delgado on FB.

I look back at some of the psychological warfare we engaged in as kids, and it was pretty brutal. I admit I was never alpha (a-hole) enough to initiate it, and if it was against someone I felt was defenseless I'd try to quell it. But damn.

We screwed with this one kid so badly he's probably a serial killer now, and I'm not sure he ever consciously knew it--e.g., one of us would tell a "joke" that was intentionally not remotely funny and we'd all die laughing. When the target would crack up we'd stop abruptly and one of would ask, "So, why is that funny?" And listen intently while he squirmed. So freaking mean and not particularly original.

This has nothing to do with JD. Really all I remember specifically about him was he'd try to take over our very informal neighborhood game and we did little things (not Scott Tenerman level) to frick with him. I'm ashamed of one in particular that my now-doc friend and I pulled. It came back to me after posting on this.

Self redemption: I do recall another instance at a "camping" trip birthday party on my friend's property in Bayou Manchac where my friends tried to leave our poor nerdy friend out in the tent and locked the door of the house. I felt so bad for the kid that I stayed out with him. He later drowned in CA. OK, now I can sleep better.

Fun times. Maybe we were too hard on JD, but I doubt he ever even noticed.