ABSTRACT
When I was growing up, I rarely saw myself as a leader. To be perfectly honest, I was afraid to be in the lead. I was very adept at using humor to get myself out of tough jams in high school. In our school, by the end of the spring, if you had not been called out for a fight, you would be! It was late spring and I had entered the cafeteria and sat down next to someone I knew. He was angry about something, and my mere proximity to him annoyed him for some reason. Before I realized it, he was calling me out to fight. I had almost made it through the year, and now it was my turn. Word spread like wildfire, even faster than the Internet! All of these upstanding middle class kids did not want to miss a pummeling. Whether I could take this guy or not, I was scared…scared all afternoon. For the first time in my life, I was not able to wiggle out of a dilemma.
