15 - Pulling your chair away as you're about to sit down

I didn't know how much I loathed this age-old prank until I was made a victim of it today. The exact reasoning behind my hate is vague, but I've pondered. Was it the feeling of embarrassment I got after others laughed at my downfall? Was it the fact that my respect for the guy, like myself, had instantaneously fallen so low? Was it the sense of injustice I experienced seeing as I hadn't done anything to disturb his life in the recent past? Or was it just me being over-sensitive on one of those days?

Ah, yes. It was one of those days. A dreary physics class, a very joyless chemistry class, an uneventful Mandarin lesson and a wearisome English class reading Shakespeare's Othello. A boring maths class was all I had to look forward to at the end of the day, and so, a downward drop easily caused my spirit to drop downward too.

I think more than anything, it was the fact that I really didn't do anything to deserve it; unlike our Shakespearean friends Othello, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, I should not have to undergo a downfall without doing anything foolish or unjust. Argh. I'll just sum up my issues with this something rich: pranks are stupid.

I just don't see the point in pranks, or in general, I don't understand humor that comes at the expense of another person's well-being. There probably will be more of these entries concerning various school-based pranks, but, oh, dear God, I hope I don't experience it first-hand.

Do you hate it too? (or did you hate it too?... This probably hasn't happened to people in a while... a long, long, long while...)

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