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"Pushers get pushed?"

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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When the cop Mike Anderson goes to help some kid get their head unstuck from in-between a stairway's handrail columns, he angrily tells the little kid who dared the other one to do that and who's probably four-years-old, "Pushers get pushed. It's a sad fact of life, but that's how it is."

I always thought that was a stupid thing for a grown man to say to a little kid and expect them to comprehend the meaning. I'm old and I don't really know what it means. Must be some homespun Maine wisdom from Stephen King.

[–] Jenna (1) 2 years ago

He says it when the boy shoves his son for tattle-telling about him picking on the girl stuck in the stairs. He tells the boy "Pushers get pushed" like "Don't be surprised if one day you get pushed or hit back" I got it the first time I saw this movie at like 8 years old, this is just a different way of stating the Golden Rule. "Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you" if you push don't expect to never get pushed.