Before the 8th grade, my grades were perfect. Every test I took, I knocked out of the park. However, the change of events in my home life started spilling over during the day at school. Living off sugar had a terrible impact on, well, everything. My breakfast of candy bars and skipping lunch left me sleeping through math and everything past 1 pm. I had a little bit of energy in the mornings for PE. Not that I wanted to have the energy for it, because it was my least favorite class. My eye-hand coordination was so bad that I was the last person to be picked for any team sport. Heck, anything involving a ball. If I was on your team, you were sure to lose. If you didn’t participate in group sports, you had to work out in the gym on the equipment. Naturally, nobody taught us all how to correctly use anything, so we would go over there and do idiotic things that made us hurt a lot later. I didn’t like weights either, so I started pegboard climbing, which was great because nobody else wanted to do that, and I had it all to myself. I became so good at pegboard climbing that I started competing against other people and schools.
At one point, during my squatting days in LDN? I became TOO good at it and had to stop myself! It was all too easy to do. I think because I had RATIONLISED in my brain that I 'deserved what I took' ... :/
I shoplifted until I got caught. They took me into their office and I cried and cried until they let me go, since I only took some underwear. I too never did it again.
At one point, during my squatting days in LDN? I became TOO good at it and had to stop myself! It was all too easy to do. I think because I had RATIONLISED in my brain that I 'deserved what I took' ... :/
I shoplifted until I got caught. They took me into their office and I cried and cried until they let me go, since I only took some underwear. I too never did it again.
Great story. For me Shoplifting was about survival!