Dealing with Bullies

a couple of men standing next to each other

Knock on the door.

BILLY: Go away!

DAD: (opens the door) Son, your mother told me to check on you.

BILLY: Iā€™m fine!

DAD: Son, I know school can be hard sometimes. But you have to go.

BILLY: I hate school! I hate everyone there! I wish we’d never

DAD: Are your teachers nice to you?

BILLY: No! They hate me! They always pick Guillermo instead of me. And then they tell me to stop answering when they ask questions!

DAD: Oh.. Is this Guillermo picking on you?

BILLY: Yeah. He always looks at me with a smirk.

DAD: Bullies, son. You can never escape them. But I can teach you how to deal with them. Theyā€™re all the same.

BILLY: Yeah?

DAD: Yeah, theyā€™re insecure because girls just donā€™t like them. Or maybe because they donā€™t like girls, but donā€™t know how to show it.

BILLY: Yeah, his only friends like to sit around in the corner at lunch and play Dungeons and Dragons…

DAD: Heā€™s probably the kind of kid that carries books and binders around, right?

BILLY: … (Sobs) yeah

DAD: Oh, I had a bully like him when I was a kid. Heā€™s keeping notes in there about how to bully you. Next time you see him, you have to slap his binder down out of his hands.

BILLY: …Okay

DAD: And he probably has rich parents, right? They probably even send him to school with lunch money every single day, right?

BILLY: Yeah…

DAD: You have to take his lunch money. Lunch is how a bullyā€™s brains grow and develop.

(Mom overhears from outside the door)

MOM: Francis! What kind of lessons are these?? This doesnā€™t sound like youā€™re teaching Billy how to deal with his bully!

DAD: Itā€™s self defense!

MOM: Itā€™s weak sauce. You need to teach him how to push him down in front of the girl he likes. Make him cry in public and heā€™ll never try to show you up again. Thatā€™s how you deal with a bully!

Cut to GUILLERMOā€™S HOUSE

GUILLERMO: Dad! I made Billy cry today because I could solve a math problem and he couldnā€™t.

GUILLERMOā€™S DAD: Good. That little bitch needs to know what life is like.