Splattered Orange Juice

Once upon a time, I sat at a large round table in the lunch room with a group of band friends.

A boy from a different table, one of the "cool kids" who no one at my table was friends with, came and sat next to us, bringing his plastic bottle of orange juice.

Odd thing about this bottle; he had squished in the sides, destroying the original shape.

After a few moments he left, forgetting his juice in the crushed bottle.

Just as I was about to take his orange juice to his table for him, the squished sides popped out, and juice came flying out of the bottle and splattered my friends and I.

The guy's table busted up laughing.
Rude.

I grabbed the bottle and tossed it in the garbage.  Only after did I consider pouring the remaining juice on his carefully combed hair and all over his designer t-shirt.

Those kids thought they were better than us and could push us around.  It is easy to laugh at those who aren't as bold, flashy, or laugh quite as loudly as you do.  But it is one of the most humiliating things that could possibly happen to a high school freshman.

We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves." -Romans 15:1

That means if you are the confident, fun loving kid with all the friends, you should not tease the kid who sits alone in the lunch room because it makes you laugh.  Instead, you need to stand by the loner kid-they need your help.

Senior year of high school, I became friends with those cool kids.

A Vietnamese girl was sitting with us at the table during lunch.  She had lived in America for several years, but her English still wasn't the best.

When she got up to leave the table, a "cool dude" said that she should learn to speak English or get out of America.

I laid into him for his rude, uncalled for, insensitive comment.

We never spoke again.

I would so much rather never speak to the "cool kids" if it means I can uphold the weak in society.