there are three types of people in the world.
people who are born believing that life is war, people who come to believe that life is war, and people who never believe that life is war.
as the school year dragged on forever, tony grew frustrated by his inability to establish himself as alpha boy over barry.
and he had to do it under the eagle eye of old ms wilcox-serafini, who was an enlightened new school educator with zero tolerance for open displays of testosterone. and usually under the soft eye of one of the rotating group of young teaching assistants
desperate situations call for desperate measures, and one day, when there was no assistant on duty, and ms wicox-serafini was unaccountably absent for a few minutes, tony took advantage of the situation and went up to barry , who was peacefully perusing a picture book, with one of his female acolytes adoringly watching him turn the pages.
tony called barry a name which no well bred gentleman, of any age, should ever use to another.
barry stood up. tony knocked him down!
the fight was on! joey, as tony’s first lieutenant rushed to the spot, as did a number of other curious children.
trixie looked on impassively, and did not move from her spot.
suddenly ms wilcox-serafini reappeared, and the conflict was over, with no physical harrm done on either side.
it was the first fight in the kindergarten in seven years!
the fallout was enormous. barry’s parents, who had thought they were doing the right thing by society by enrolling him in the public school, withdrew him immediately. they angrily demanded to know how the children could have been left unattended, even for a millisecond, allowing such an incident to occur. they contemplated a lawsuit, but were dissuaded by their politically astute lawyer.
ms wilcox-serafini was severely reprimanded and the proverbial “note” was “placed her in her file”, but her years of unblemished service saved her from terminaton.
tony was removed from school for the remainder of the school year, but allowed to return the next year, for first grade.
joey continued to be tony’s faithful lieutenant, but never looked at him in quite the same way again.
trixie filed the incident away in her brain.
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