text: Ages ago (you know, about 11 years) when I was 15 I got suspended from high school. This is a "How nerds get suspended" story.\n\nI had a disagreement with two of my "friends" on the yearbook staff, wherein I refused to sign a "contract" they made up for yearbook photographers without reading it carefully and showing it to my dad. They were unhappy. After school I took the contract home, read it through carefully, and wrote a list of things that needed clarified before I was going to sign it. At that basketball game that night (we were all in the pep band too) I gave both of them the list of clarifications I wanted. One of them read through it, gave me reasonable and thought out answers, and went to take her saxophone onto the stage in the gym. The other girl got angry with me for questioning her and chewed me out. At that point, my best friend told her that I was just trying to work things out and she didn't have to be such a snot. The other girl then called my friend a b**** and slapped her across the face. My friend barely had time to slap her back before I had shoved her into a corner made by the wall and the side of the piano (we were in the bandroom). I kept punching her in the arm, telling her she wasn't going to get away with slapping my friend. She punched me in the eye. And my friend Reid kept trying to break us apart without having to touch any boobies (should have been our first clue he was gay!). At any rate, the fight broke up eventually, and the superintendant who was also the principal at the time talked to my friend and the other girl about the fight. But, as my friend and I have the same first name (different spellings), he didn't realize I was involved, even though I went up to him and asked if he needed to talk to me (I warned you this was a nerd story). After the weekend, on Monday, all of us were called in to the principal/superintendent's office, and I was suspended for fighting because the girl said that she was "scared to be in the same room" as me. Which was b.s. And further b.s., because I only punched her repeatedly in the upper arm, while she punched me with her ring in the eye. So, I went around for quite a while with my sense of justice unhappy, but when I think of it now, it was pretty funny.