Wrestling is not just for the kids, or so I like to believe. At least not for the boys.
We in the upper senior boys houses are assumed to be usually docile, but terribly violent to when we get angry. That is simply not true for most of us. People are really violent in very very rare incidents, but they do like fights, the kiddies’ kind.
The teachers would probably be surprised to find out how many wrestlings go in upper senior houses. It is like we are preparing for the real world, but without the blood and gore and other real world implications. Sometimes even the harmless wrestlings can go wrong, but again, that happens most of the time. Most of the time, when someone is bored, he pushes someone else into the bed(no pun intended), and the other either retaliates or is too tired or busy to get involved. If there’s no retaliation, the fight ends quickly. If, on the other hand, there is retaliation, the fight goes until either one, or both, are too tired to continue fighting. There are almost no surrenders, even though unintentional wounds are frequent. Someone I know has a long scar on his cheeks from this, but he cooks up daring stories to explain it to people who don’t know.