Rall is back recounting his junior-high years at the hadns of a merciless bully who just wouldn't let up. Ted, now a strapping fella over 6 feet happily lost in the Big Apple, was a wimpy egghead trapped in the middle of Nowheresville, Heartland USA back then, and hated it with a passion. This no-holds-barred recollection begs the question: was his attitude so snotty that he deserved the abuse?