Allergies...

Here's the story:
Today, I was eating my lunch. With my lunch, I got a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I was eating it, talking to my friends and stuff, and basically just having a good time when this fucking annoying kid (who happens to be deadly allergic to peanut butter) decides he wants to sit at our table. We have a specially designated peanut/sea-food free table in the other corner of the cafeteria, but only 1 or 2 kids sit there. So anyways, out of the 12 people at the table, 7 of the people had either eaten a peanut butter sandwich or some of the Snickers Ice-cream bars they were selling or something containing peanut butter.

This kid, who thinks everybody likes him, wants to sit at our table. I don't want to move, because I'm eating my lunch - and I sure as hell won't get up for somebody because of THEIR allergies. The kid decides to be a dumbfuck and says "well, I'm going to sit at this table anyways" -- great. We all tell the kid to leave, because the table was basically contaminated with peanut butter, and while we hated the fucker, we didn't really want him to die. Then, he leaves and instead of finding a new table, he decides to be a little bitch and speak to the school principal because we were "bullying" him.

Two of my friends and I were called into the office, making us miss our lunch AND part of our next period free. Basically we were given 2 hours of Saturday school, from 8-10 a week from tomorrow [THANKSGIVING WEEKEND ]. I can't go to New York with my family (if we don't go, we get suspended). I'm obviously going to have a meeting with them on Monday, but I'm one of the school's best students - and have a perfectly clean record.

So, there are two parts that I want to discuss with everyone. I am NOT asking for stuff like "sucks" or anything, I want to have a reasonable discussion.
1) What do you make of this?
2) Do YOU think people with allergies should get special privileges? (ie; people sitting at a table MUST move to make room where the person is not surrounded by peanut butter)
3) Should there be a punishment for NOT giving them these priveleges? (I don't mean INTENTIONALLY sitting down and rubbing peanut butter all over the kid, I just mean like not doing him any favors).

I myself have no horrible allergies, so I really don't know what to feel. But I don't feel any regrets for what I did...why the fuck should me and everyone who was eating peanut butter have to move all because ONE kid can't be around the peanut butter, and there are specially designated places for people like him?

 

1) What do you make of this?
This is pretty ****ed up, present your story to them and explain how the kid saw how ocupied with Peanut butter the table was, explain to them that you were not "bullying" him that you were simply warning him for his own good.
2) Do YOU think people with allergies should get special priveleges? (ie; people sitting at a table MUST move to make room where the person is not surrounded by peanut butter)
F No, though all are born equal it changes right after such as with alergies, they know they can get sick to it and its their choice to be around it.
3) Should there be a punishment for NOT giving them these priveleges? (I don't mean INTENTIONALLY sitting down and rubbing peanut butter all over the kid, I just mean like not doing him any favors).
No, no one on this earth is equal we all have our downs it is just hte luck of some people that they were born with this illness.

 

1) What do you make of this? I think the administration is at fault here, I mean he was warned and he didnt listen. Doesnt mean he has to go whine to the principal. He should of saw the immediate danger when there was more than one person with peanut butter there.
2) Do YOU think people with allergies should get special priveleges? Not really, because the most that can happen is hives. It is not a life or death situation.
3) Should there be a punishment for NOT giving them these priveleges? No I dont feel like a punishment is a good justification for something of this little magnitude.

 

I will post what I think later. I just wanted to let you know, that your answer for number 2 is completely wrong. It "could" be a life or death situation. My friend is allergic to peanut butter, his through closes up and if he isn't given a special needle within 3 min he will die. So yeah.. I'm going to eat dinner, when i get back Ill post my views

 

Its fucked, but theres not much that you can do about it. I've been a victim to stuff like this as well, but you just gotta live with it, most of the time they wont listen to your side of the story.

 

1) What do you make of this?

Well thats bullshit. I'd explain to the principle you simply told him that it was not safe for him to be at your table while you guys were eating food that he is allergic too and that you were not bullying. Make up some bullshit that your his friends but you just didn't want him to get his allergies thing. The principle is a fuckhead for giving you detention etc over that.

2) Do YOU think people with allergies should get special priveleges? (ie; people sitting at a table MUST move to make room where the person is not surrounded by peanut butter)

No way, if they are allergic to something then they just shouldn't be around people who are eating it. No one else should have to suffer.

3) Should there be a punishment for NOT giving them these priveleges? (I don't mean INTENTIONALLY sitting down and rubbing peanut butter all over the kid, I just mean like not doing him any favors).

No, it was his choice to come to the table. And it was your obligation to warn him that you were eating peanut butter which you did. So you did everything that you were required to therefore you should not have been punished.

 

1.Its bullshit, just tell the principal that you guys only wanted him to go away because some people at your table were eating food that contained nuts. etc.

2.of course they should get special privlages but nothing to major (like just enough that will help them not overly helpful as it maybe unfair for some of the other students e.g. they might ban food with nuts etc for an overly major one) and if one person wishes to sit at a table and most of them are eating the stuff they are alergic to than the person alergic should move not the other way around

3.yeah there should be but nothing to major, maybe just a detention for first 15% lunch or somthing

 

Alright. So basically, the opinion here seems to be pretty steady: people with allergic reactions should NOT get any special priveleges. Does anyone with a severe allergy that can be caused by other people have anything to say?

 

1) It's a case of miscommunication, you are both free to sit wherever you want
2) No, people with allergies don't need special privileges, they can watch out for themselves and don't need perks
3) They don't need privileges, just knowledge about how to take care of their specific situation. But it would be hilarious to sit down and rub peanut butter all over his face.

 

LOL


Explain to that jerk of a principal your side, and see what he says. I wouldn't go to this weekend thing, say you were too busy being bullied and couldn't leave your house because the bullies were waiting outside.

 

I? I think it is a pointless attempt by this kid for some attention. He is clearly abusing his position.

No I don't think you must move. Their is a section designated for them, so why must they interfere with you? Also, no special privileges. They need a place where they won't get sick or hurt. That should be the end of it.
(You spelled privileges wrong.)

No, unless your school is like China. Which right now it appears it is.

 

I would have said "Dude, were eating peanuts just so ya know" when he sat down... Then i wouldnt care if he stayed or left, thats his problem

 

I think my school interpreted it as using peanut butter to "emotionally abuse" another kid. I didn't even get a chance to explain my side of the story, which is fucking nuts. I'm kinda just looking for what to say on Monday - I don't want to say something along the lines of "he coulda just sat over there" because that would imply that we didn't want him there (which is true, but we can't really say that). It's just kinda funny, cuz we WERE looking out for his safety.

I did say that. He asked the peanut-butter eating people to move close together so he could sit on the other side. We were all lazy, and the peanutbutter had probably spread to the table anyways.