44. Several Days
Some good-looking wrestler kid tells me one day:” Damm dude you are so fat!”
I flatly replied: “Maybe, but I can always go on a diet – you’ll be ugly forever.”
This guy absolutely loses his sh*t and tries to fight me. Luckily I had several large friends around to help me out. I had no idea that someone I considered pretty good-looking (even for a guy; no homo) would be so incredibly insecure about his looks.
Years later in college, we became friends and he told me he cried himself to sleep for several days feeling like the ugliest duckling in high school. I did feel bad when I heard that… but I also wondered why someone so sensitive wouldn’t even consider that calling another person fat was also very hurtful.