After a few minutes, the third boy left, while the other two came out with popsicles, finished them, and hopped on their boards. I stayed outside for another ten minutes, and they returned. Another boy who seemed to be coming from the main guy's(7th grader's) driveway. As soon as the boy past by the two "alpha males" he shouted " Hey [name]!"-talking to the 7th grade kid, who responded with a simple "sup" and chuckled a little bit as the boy had passed. He made it pretty obvious that he was the group leader, he was at the top of the pack, he was kinda like the "Sonny" of the group, except he was given both respect and fear.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
The "Do Nothing Experiment"
I did recieve a few questioning/ awkward glances, and that was definitely expected. I stood in front of my house, frozen, and just observing people as they passed by. The moms were huddled together on their driveways talking about their kids, and if this and that was normal, the usual mom talk. The guys across the street were playing some basketball, and seemed to be enjoying themselves. But what really got my attention was this one little boy, who, I'm guessing, was only in like the 7th grade. But anyway, he and this other kid who was about the same age were just standing on the driveway with their skateboards under their arms as another boy came up the driveway. And this is when the climax of the expieriment began. The three boys just started talking, and the boy who I was mainly focused on (the 7th grader), made a "get out of here" kind of gesture with his left hand, and the kid beside him started laughing, and pointed at the third boy, who stood there frozen for a second. After only a few short seconds of being laughed at, the third kid laughed to and got on his skateboard and showed off a few new tricks..but fell. The two main boys just started cracking up and went inside.
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