There isn't much of a story to tell: I was going to a pub to see my friends, a car passed behind me and I was hit in the back of the head with a rock or something about as big and heavy. While it hurt, it didn't really do any damage. I didn't even stop in the immediate reaction and kept walking, albeit slower and more shaken, towards the pub.
After the initial shock passed I just thought "of course". Why hadn't something like that happened before? I mean, of course it has happened to me before like anyone else, but why doesn't this kind of thing happen more often? Individual people are amazing, humanity is shit and this should hardly be an unusual moment. After all, society really isn't much except a veneer over our inclination to throw rocks at people.
I shook the incident off fairly quickly and kept quiet about it to my friend for various reasons. I told them about it yesterday and they were shocked and sympathetic. But I don't think they were surprised either. Perhaps deep down, we all know that this is a massive deception, with the ugly truth breaking forth in isolated incidents.
Stay tuned to find out who breaks first.
-The English Student
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