OH mY VARIOUS DEITIES
So my 12-year-old little sister has this really awful teacher who calls kids names and then claims it's all in fun and has weird requirements and teases people, right? And he's been doing this for *years,* and apparently nobody's taken it to the administration. A couple months ago, she wrote him a Strongly Worded Letter (the kind that's creeping into Howler territory) about how That's Bullying and he needs to Stop or she'll talk to a counselor.
So the last couple of days, she's taken a little notebook to class. She flipped a couple of pages in, wrote the date. Every time he says something mean, she makes a little tally. She's not been to see the counselor, she's not showing anyone anything. She's not writing down any specifics, it could just be a list of when she's thought about thai food that day. If he asks, she just says, "Oh, making a note." But apparently, he's seen this kind of note-taking.
He looked over her shoulder once, and then started twitching whenever he saw her.
And that, ladies, gentlemen, and assorted populace, is how you screw with someone's mind. (and she's twelve. I'm kind of afraid of what'll happen when she grows up.)
(And heyyy, congrats on a year, Looney!)