this fucker siting behind me

one day in period four, the teacher wasn’t there, so we had to do work in our textbook. very grueling work — like, you need to read a bunch of stuff, and, like, no distractions. like, no distractions.

and then i realize the guy sitting behind me starts whispering, and it slowly gets louder and louder, to a point where i can't read my book. and then me and one other person at my table — we turned around and we said, “could you not talk so loud?” and he said, “i’m not talking loud—” no, well, he said, “mind your own business,” and then he said, “i’m not talking loud.”

at this point, we are confused because he was very obviously talking loud. and i’m like, this motherfucker, what are you talking about? you are very clearly talking loud. so we told him to stop, and he said, “okay fine, i’ll stop, i’ll stop, i’ll stop. okay, i’m— fine, fine.”

so i know this guy, and he's like a real jackass, right? so i was obviously suspicious about how he would, like—like if he actually would stop. so for maybe 10 more seconds, extra, i looked behind me just to, like, 100% make sure this guy's not talking anymore. and then he said, “what? what are you looking at? what are you doing? what are you looking at?” and then i said, “just making sure that you're not making any noise.” cuz, i mean, it was due that day. so what are we supposed to do if we can't do it, and we can't talk to our teacher because it's a sub, right? so i think i was pretty much in the right there.

and then the person that was talking to him before with me also said, “yeah, just stop. just stop talking.”

and then, around 10 minutes pass.

i turn around, and he's now straight behind me. earlier, there was a table in between us, and now he's just, like, straight up behind me, sitting in a chair behind me. and he's talking again. and this time, he wasn't talking about the assignment — last time he was, like, reading out loud — this time, he wasn't talking about the assignment.

i looked down, and he had youtube open and was watching a racing game. like, what? this is history class. unless we're learning about the history of cars — which we weren’t — we were learning about rome. what are you doing? you have to stop that. because, i mean, i don't want to be like a fucking stickler, but what the hell are you doing?

like, he was literally this loud and talking like: “oh, oh, it’s—it’s a car, look at this car. this guy is probably like half out of gas, and like, look at this car chase, you know.” and i was like, “yo dude, shut up. like, actually shut up. you’re just talking so loud, and not even about the assignment.”

and then he said, “you can't tell me what to do. i don’t take orders from you.” and i said, “okay,” and i raised my hand and said, “excuse me, miss substitute teacher, this guy behind me is yelling. he’s yelling about car games.”

and then they moved me to a different part of the classroom, and i finished my assignment with, like, five minutes left. i had to do, like, five questions in five minutes, and they were long. they were, like, you had to write a paragraph. but i think i did pretty well.

that’s my story — that’s really all i’d like to talk about today.

it is the 23rd of february, 2025, and it’s jude here.

goodbye.