Published on 12, July, 2020
Just interested if anyone else has met a person in adult life who bullied them at school.
My father ran a small coach business, the yard had an office and occasionally people would book a coach in person. One day I was on my own in the yard, I would have been about 35 then. One of the school bullies turned up to book a coach. He was one of the worst ones, anyway he greeted me like an old friend, it shocked me and I was like a rabbit in the headlights. He really was after ‘mates rates’, I really didn’t know how to deal with him, had he forgotten or thought it was just a bit of fun, I couldn’t work it out, I started to wonder, did the years of abuse actually happen? But they are too vivid, they did happen. Another thought was, he’s pushing me for a cheap price, is he trying to bully me again. I so wanted to ask him why he did it but couldn’t. My father luckily came back to the yard and dealt with his enquiry. Has anything similar happened to anyone else?
I know when I was self employed, if you tried to bully me, your bill went up by 50%...
And they always paid it. I did meet one of my old bullies once in a pub. It was clear that was where they'd spent much of the previous few decades, destroying their physiology with alcohol, and been and done virtually nothing interesting in the world, so after a few words of friendly greeting, I left them to their slice of paradise, and got on with my life, happily.
Sin contains it's own reward...