First off, spring break ahoy~  Really, it's not much of a break.  Thursday, Friday, and Monday off, but I will take what I can get right now.  I have a heck of a lot to do.  (Like stop being a pussy and getting some lines done)

Today kind of sucked but for one thing.  So at lunch, I sit with my brother and his Freshman "buddies." I don't like them too much at all because they're all pretty much dicks.  'Specially this one kid in particular: Mike.  I don't know if I mentioned this in the past, but a few months ago, my little brother (who has yet to reach five foot and weighs just slightly more than I do) was yanked across a lunch table...over a frigging quarter.  My brother was joking around, saying he was going to take this quarter he found on the ground, and Mike yanked my brother by the wrist to take the quarter, in the process pulling my brother into the table and halfway across it.  Now, I know, I know.  Boys will be boys.  They rough around with each other all the time...  But realize this is my baby brother.  And that this Mike kid is twice his size.

The situation was handled...somewhat, and my brother hasn't been physically beat up around me again.  (Mind you, the boy still gets bullied, but he really needs to start fighting his own fights.  I don't know what I'm going to do with him.) I've been talking with his "buddies" a lot lately.  Okay, so talking to them for me means verbally abusing them, but hey, what'cha gonna do?  I can tolerate some of them now, but seriously... I don't like 'em.

Today, Mike brought in this plastic egg with Easter candy in it.  He showed it off and then sat at the table.  He turned his back to us to talk to some friends, and I looked at the egg for a minute.  My brother read my mind and took it, but then he got nervous because he knows he shouldn't start trouble with this guy.  So he put it back.  I was immediately "Yeah right, as if, gimme that." And I shoved the thing in my lunchbox.  Mike turned around...didn't even notice it was gone.  Awesome.  I was going to have fun with this.  I tried to allude to it, bringing up topics like Easter and candy, but he wasn't all there.  Excellent.

When he went to get his lunch tray, my brother's buddies were all "What are you doing?" because my brother and I had these huge grins plastered on our faces and we looked guilty.  So I showed them the egg.  They begged for the candy, and I figured "Hey, their funeral" so I let them have at it.  Mike came back, and they all hid their candy.  He still didn't notice it.  I blatantly called him a retard and talked about how he wasn't noticing it (very vaguely, mind you - I'm not going to be dumb enough to admit the crime in bold-faced letters) while he ate his lunch.  He then took his tray up and we all had a pretty good laugh as we mocked him.  When he came back near the end of the lunch period, he pulled out all the other junk he had - Pepsi, a candy bar, lemonade...then he reached into his pocket.  We held our breath, thinking he was going to finally figure it out...

He pulled out two cookies. 

The lunch period ended, and he still had no clue.  So I figured this: if you have candy and are dumb enough to leave it around your thieving friends, and then you don't even notice it's gone, you don't deserve it.

I'm taking the egg back on Tuesday, writing a note that says "Sorry sucker" and placing it in front of him when he has his back turned.  I'm not much of a prankster, but this was just too good an opportunity to pass up.