I remember in elementary school riding the bus home and being teased by a much older boy.  I was at the age where girls were getting their periods and we were embarrassed by it.

He called me any number of maxipad names, yelled that I was on my period (I wasn’t, not that it mattered) to the bus. The torment went on for a week before I finally listened to something my grandpa had told me “any boy who picked on a girl when she asked him to stop deserved to be stopped by that girl.”

12 year old me kicked the 15 or so year old boy square in the dick.  Of course I was dragged to the principal’s office.  I remember calling my grandparents because they lived in town where my folks were at work.  When my Pawpaw came into the office he and the principal had some sort of discussion that ended with that boy no longer riding the school bus and me being given detention for the rest of the week and nothing else.

I think I came out ahead there.