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Especially in my German class.

Okay, so I'm in 11th grade and whatnot, going to graduate next school year, and I'm in a German 1-2 class for no other reason than the fact that I like foreign languages. Going in, I already half expected a ton of the annoying 'I'm so cool and don't care about this class and just want to mess around' freshman and sophomores, but I really didn't think that the class would be so... odd.

One day, I walk in and take my seat when the guy behind me, another junior and someone I've known since elementary school but we really grew apart, asks me something along the lines of: "Don't you wish it was like the old times when you could just punch someone in the face when they say something mean to you?"
And I just blink a few times and say, "Uh... it was ever okay?"
"Well yeah, nowadays people can just run their mouth off at you and get away with it but a while ago there was always the threat of being punched in the face and they'd keep quiet."
"Um... well, you haven't punched a girl, have you?"
"No, of course not. But there's part of the problem... girls can just run their mouths off and I'm not allowed to do anything. And when I'm walking in the halls, I always have to move for them because they just walk straight"

And I go on to tell him some other stuff. But later that same class period, these two boys during a Patton movie took turns holding each others' arms down and the other boy would punch them. They took turns, for Pete's sake! Where does that expression come from? How stupid is that?! Is that just what young boys do? Hurt each other for the fun of it? After they were done, they played a little game of quarters, which if you don't know is where you flick a quarter at each others' knuckles until it breaks skin. Huh.

This same class today, a boy was turning his shirt around and the teacher caught him. She asked why he was undressing, in her lovely English accent, and he told her plainly that he was turning his shirt around. It was a white shirt, so it didn't even look different between the front and back, and she asked, "Is there like some sort of sensation or excitement you get from that? I don't get it" And I laughed because really, why was he doing that?

Oh, and I also asked the guy who sits behind me if he ever punched someone in the face and he said no. So... I don't really get the wanting to punch people in the face thing.