Leotardleotard

Leotardleotard t1_iuhwsx7 wrote

Not exactly the same but very blonde and long into my mid 20’s so yeah, enough to make the assumption that I was the other kid from back then.

We lived in a fairly small town so both of us stood out quite a bit.

As an aside, I’d waited forever to get with a particular girl I liked. I asked her out, she agreed and then bad kid also asked her out so she dumped me for him haha.

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Leotardleotard t1_iuhrli8 wrote

I’ve been on the other side of this.

When I was at school another kid and I both had very similar hairstyles and were pretty much the only two kids for miles around with this fairly distinctive haircut (it was around the time of Nirvana / Point Break for reference).

Other kid was a semi-mate of mine but also was a bit crazy. I’d regularly get pulled into the headmaster’s office at school asking if I’d done something and we’d quickly ascertain it was the other kid.

Many years later I was waiting to get some money out of the ATM and some guy was before me in the queue. He got his money out, screwed his receipt and threw it in my face. I thought it was needlessly aggressive but let it slide……a few seconds later I got a huge punch in the face, fell over and got kicked in the face for good measure. The guy ran off as his mates were standing there open mouthed and confused. My nose was broken and I had blood pouring from my mouth too. I asked his mates who he was and they game me a name I’d never heard of.

Many (many) years later I was at football with another friend and we were talking about things and i mentioned this event. As soon as I mentioned the name of the guy who punched me my friend immediately knew what I was on about and filled me in on how the bad kid with the same hair had spat in the bank attackers face and punched him about 10 years prior to me seeing him in the street.

Man held a grudge (with good reason) and I unfortunately paid for it.

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