I'm in a big dilemma and I need some help judging this. Although I don't know why I'm asking for serious help from you people, it's worth a shot.
Today at school, at lunch, one of my friends came to where we usually sit (which is on a very large set of stairs) and dropped his hardcover textbook on the ground from a standing position. This of course made a very loud bang. This happens almost every day and one of my other friends and I were getting annoyed. While the book-dropping-friend was talking to someone across the way, I picked up the book, held it as high as I could from my sitting position, and dropped it on the edge of the stair. It obviously made a loud banging noise again. This is how the book landed:
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So it obviously fell off onto the next stair (for the most part accurately portrayed in the text sketch above). All of a sudden, book-dropper-friend turned around, and asked sternly, "Who kicked my book?"
I told him I dropped it on the edge of the stair, and he started to get all worked up about it. He asked me why, and I made the apparent mistake of saying "To prove a point".
He then kicked my water bottle so it flew off the stairs, and went to pick it up. He took it over to the trash and threw it in, and said he was "proving a point". After trying to reason with him, he took my backpack/messenger bag and proceeded to empty it all over the place. I tried to tell him he was being illogical but he wouldn't listen, and kept saying "don't touch my stuff".
We've been good friends forever and we mess with each other all the time, and I couldn't see how this was upsetting him so much.
I saw him briefly before our last class of the day and my arguing was futile.
We had a text conversation after school, which reads as follows:
I don't understand what you're flipping out about, i'm sorry for dropping your book on the ground, but i didn't expect you to have a cow about it. u trollin'?
I'm going to try to explain this one last time. By your logic, it is a-ok to pick up OTHER PEOPLES THINGS and mess with them in any way, shape, or form if you're proving a point. By that logic, I could easily have said I wanted to demonstrate the effect of taking a water bottle and throwing it towards the trash can thereby justifying my taking your water bottle and throwing it away
(Before I can respond)
In general, if you take peoples things "just to prove a point" ad you throw, drop, burn, or damage that object, the won't see the scientific wonders in what you've done, rather that you've just damaged their property without their consent
(And again)
In conclusion, don't take my things to "prove a point", or anyone else's, unless you've asked
I dropped a book, I didn't burn a house down, you've completely taken this to a different subject
thats it, youre never going to get it
There's nothing to get, i mispoke when i said 'proving a point' anyway because i couldn't think of the right phrase, and you're basing your entire argument from that
well what were you doing with my book?
Dropping it to show you how annoying it was when you do it every day
Really? You're going to potentially incur fines against me for the sake of attempting to show how annoying a single sound you have to hear once a day is? my you're touchy
You don't seem to understand that I had no intention of destroying your book and that it was all in good fun, until of course you blew it out of proportion and made it a super serious issue
I know you didn't, but we all know Mrs. Garr (Note: This is our school's hard-ass librarian) is a liar... I mean stickler about damage to books, I only want to be charged with fines that I incur. My mom concurs
Again, I had no intention of damaging your book and I was only trying to have a laugh, i didn't know you were so careful about your book
It's like Oasis' (Note: Yes, he reads the forums) tribal jokes, not humorous and just a richard move.
Derp
Manuelian
(No, you're not supposed to understand this last one)
I just don't get it.
