Eddie

So you called me Eddie Spaghetti.

For the six-year-old version of me, I was hypersensitive.

Every time you called me Eddie Spaghetti, I burst into tears, and the rest of the class would laugh.

Mark would laugh, Ari would laugh, and other people would join in calling me Eddie Spaghetti.

And it all seems so silly now.

It's utterly silly, but as a six-year-old kid, I felt like, you know, I was the... I was the one everyone made fun of in class.

It must have been first or second grade because most of us had those metal lunchboxes, usually with themes from TV shows on them.

My lunchbox was the Six Million Dollar Man with Steve Austin, played by Lee Majors.

So it's lunchtime.

The teacher's telling everybody to get their lunchboxes and line up.

And I pull my metal lunchbox off and someone else's metal lunchbox falls on you, like falls on your shoulder.

Maybe you had a bruise the next day, but what I do remember is you then just started whacking me.

Yeah, hitting me multiple times.

And I really remember seeing your eyes and seeing rage in your eyes.

physically whacking me.

And then finally a teacher came over and separated us and I don't remember anything else that day.

I just, I remember you hitting me and I remember the rage in your eyes.

As I recall, we're at the 53rd Street Park.

Teacher took us out on a nice day.

We're sitting playing duck, duck, goose.