I have been branded involunteerly. My first year in Canada I went to HS, and it was a very prepish type school. I listened to certain types of music they didn't approve of, I guess, and after the first few days of school, 4 guys pinned me down and gave me 3 "horsehoes" on my arm. What a warm welcome I felt. Horseshoes is when they turn a lighter upside down, heat it up for a good 30 seconds, and give you a nice horseshoe shaped blister.

To say the least, after that it was all downhill. After 2 months of enduring more BS, simply because of the music I listened to and the t-shirts I wore, I snapped and bloodied a kid up nicely. After that, instead of getting the shit kicked out of me, everyone just ignored me.

All of this because I listened to some music that some kids didn't approve of. High school is so silly.

Since then those scars have been covered up by tattoos on my forearm. I started with one tattoo, and my doctor actually told me to consider covering those scars up to get passed that episode in my life. I took his advice and in a mtter of months it was covered.

Plus they look really nice too.