I'm sitting here, thinking and thinking, and I honestly don't have a true answer for either. I guess that's good. I was kinda quiet and never a brat or bully, so I can honestly say I have no real memory of being cruel to someone at that point. Maybe just standard, careless thoughtlessness (as I entered my teenage years), but I never went out of my way to hurt someone, stranger or otherwise.
And I can't recall being treated cruelly by anyone. I was never picked on or bullied and I had friends - all the way up to my teens and throughout high school - from all the groups. Maybe just standard teen-age razzing and name-calling, but nothing so bad that it actually left an impression.
I do remember a girl named Becky Clark - from Wisconsin...I'll always remember that - calling me "freckle face" in third grade and throwing a rock at me and hitting my ear. I think that's about as bad as it ever got and the fact that she got in MAJOR trouble was all I needed to let it go.
