Fight!
In amusing but embarrassing news, there was a fight in my old dormitory last night.¬† This old dude who I call Crusty Jim freaked out and attacked another teacher.¬† Crusty Jim is like 65, hates every woman over thirty regardless of her race, and hates anybody else who is not as bitter as he is.¬† For no apparent reason, he’s had a grudge against another teacher for like a year.¬† He’s suspected of being the one who has been slashing the guy’s bicycle tires (and it would be convenient for him, because he lives next door to the guy).¬† He’s also suspected of being the one who drew a dollar sign on a Jewish teacher’s door, and of putting raw eggs in the guy’s bicycle helmet, but nobody has any proof of that.¬† Anyway, the guy he doesn’t like put some garbage outside of his door for the cleaning lady to take downstairs.¬† Crusty Jim freaked out, started screaming, supposedly punched the guy and tried to goad him into hitting back, said he would molest the guy’s daughter when she came to visit, and started calling the guy a “North Korean gook” (although the guy he was saying this to is white, and from Mississippi or someplace like that).¬† The police were called, the head of the waiban came, and the matron of the dormitory was on the scene.¬† The cops didn’t want to get involved b/c the altercation involved two foreigners, and wanted to send some special policemen to deal with things.¬† I don’t know if they ever showed up.¬† The head of the waiban and the matron knocked on Crusty Jim’s door for a while, but he refused to come out.
I don’t know what the result of this mayhem will be. I’m wondering if Crusty Jim will be punished in any way.
Although all this is funny for its stupidity, it’s also sort of embarrassing.¬† It must make the poor head of the waiban (who is really young) and the matron think foreigners are total freaks.
Interestingly, this is the second university I’ve worked in where a teacher attacked someone.¬† Wait … I’ve only worked for two universities …!¬†