Life is so much not like a Hollywood movie. I thought I’d share this recent experience I had with a bully from my childhood past of 45 years ago in case any of you have a Spiderman Peter Parker Flash Thompson bully becomes best friend fantasy. It ain’t gonna happen and you’re better off not making contact with a bully from your childhood!
My bully and I were actually good friends playing on the same Little League team: we’d ride home and walk back together after baseball games, stop in the candy store for sodas and my father would give him rides home and treat him to pizza and hot dogs. We didn’t go to the same school but we were good friends who both loved baseball. When I turned 12 I went to another school and my Little League friend went to this school as well and at first I was delighted as I’d have my pal in my school. My friend was a lot bigger than me in size and when I saw him for the first time in school and came over to him with a big hello and smile he started to tell me to get lost and was totally mean and obnoxious. He didn’t hit me or anything but ridiculed me. For the next 2 years in school, he made fun of me every time he saw me and as he was a lot bigger than me, I didn’t challenge him to a fight. I found out during that time that his father had died and I kind of attributed his behavior to that. When I later went on to another school, I never saw him again and completely forgot all about him.
It’s now 45 years later and I discovered a forum on my home town which I had left after High School and I posted a question on the forum about some people I hadn’t seen for ages. The friend turned bully wasn’t one of the people I asked about as I could care less. Somehow I got a private message from someone on the board who wanted me to call them but didn’t leave a name. I should note I used an anonymous screen name on the forum and didn’t identify myself. I emailed this person back and said I’m not calling someone whose name I don’t know. He emailed me back and told me his name and low and behold it was my friend turned bully from 45 years ago. I hadn’t thought of him for all this time but I still remembered his name and everything. I wrote him back that he was an asshole to me when we were kids after originally being my buddy in Little League and under the circumstances I did not want to talk to him or continue the correspondence. He immediately emailed me back with an apology and said he understands and wrote no excuses or explanations. I wrote him back and told him I appreciated and accepted his apology and there were no hard feelings. I told him a bit about my life and mentioned how my late father really liked him and how I was sorry his father died when he was 12 as well as writing that I hope his life has been good. Here’s where unfortunately reality sets in and life is like “Lost”- there are no answers and explanations. He emails me back and tells me his father didn’t die when he was 12 but died only 2 years ago and just wrote a few lines of “How is the weather mundane inconsequential BS” with no explanation of why he turned on me whatsoever when we were kids. Needless to say I didn’t continue “our reunion”! So if you ever have a chance to confront a bully from your childhood, be smart and don’t bother, there’s nothing to be gained and no lessons to be learned. Please check out our large Online Discount Gift Store Click Here and our other Online Discount Stores below which helps support this politically incorrect blog. Thank you.
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