It was so nice to see you again! I think the last time I talked to you was while telling you off for rating girls in our grade nine class by their breast size (how do you like my zero’s now, bitch?) You were such a fucking prick to me from primary right up to grade twelve, I never did anything to you and you made my life hell. Now make my coffee asshole, one sugar and two milk. No tip for you! Douche bag.
—My Harley is worth more than you.
This article appears in May 7-13, 2009.
Wow, how old are you…? grade nine? Isn’t it time to forgive and forget? and hey..small but firm..that’s what I alway’s say, You may have your DD’s but when your forty and those thing’s are sagging down to your knee’s, I’ll still have my perky B’s haha.
Well, you have to admit that it’s nice to see someone who treated you like shit for so long doing shit like serving your coffee or checking out your groceries….not saying those aren’t respectable jobs, but hey, they’re not the epitome of “success” either….
There are a few people I’ve encountered in my 2.5-ish decades on this planet that I wouldn’t mind seeing fail at life…*shrug*
Fucking A.
Hey folks, this is what ‘karma’ is all about.
Forgive and forget? Fuck that.
Just fast forward twenty years ahead when his man-boobs are bigger than yours.
Being bullied is weird shit. I was bullied in junior high by these two sadistic cunts who took great delight in slicing my self-esteem into pastrami-sized slices. But, on the other hand, I became stronger and by the time I finished high school, I made sure I was known as someone not to fuck with. So maybe they did me a backhanded favour. I was never bullied again.
The ending to this tale is that one bully still lives with her 80+ parents and the other became a hospice nurse. Go figure, huh?
1fallingangels, I had cute little B cups too – for 20 years. Now I’m that DD who can use her tits as ankle warmers. They also make great pillows, especially when you flip them over to the cool side.
I have to admit, I am guilty of taking pleasure in seeing that my former bully classmates are still a bunch of losers and now they are aware of it too.
ha, falllingangels- you have been unanimously overruled… karma is sweet, sweet payback. Your post made me happy, OP- i wont lie…
Perhaps that guy serving you coffee, who was mean in grade school when you were both ignorant teen agers is now working serving coffee, to pay for med school, and will one day save your double d’s from breast cancer. Get over it.
Or maybe the guy’s a loser and is slinging coffee because he should have paid more attention to the blackboard instead of girls breasts when he was in high school. Most of the bullies and jerk-offs from my high school definitely did NOT have med school potential. They picked on the kids who did.
Maybe the OP is being a little petty and it’s time to move on, but it’s an understandable petty.
Reminds me of this:
http://www.filehurricane.com/photo-viewer/…
I’m betting falllingangels was one of the popular kids.
I definitely see how it could be amusing and maybe it’s just because I moved around a lot. But seriously, ninth grade? I wouldn’t even recognize seeing someone I knew from ninth grade.
Ha, fizz that’s funny. Actually I was one of the lucky kid’s. I got lot’s of trial and error. Being the new kid in rural area school’s definitely didn’t make me the popular kid, I got picked on quite a bit. However moving too a new school 2 year’s later and than another 2 year’s later etc. I was able to figure out what way’s worked with bullies, and what didn’t. I also developed an attitude of not giving a fuck because well, I’d be moving again soon anyway. It definitely taught me how to put people who crossed me wrong in there place. It also taught me to befriend everyone and I did. I never followed clicks, and because I knew how it felt to be bullied yet no longer gave a fuck about it, when I was able to stand up against people and not get pushed around, I never EVER stood idly around while another kid got picked on, never.
lol you don’t pay for med school at Tim’s, Rafiki. You pay for med school by getting loans and then getting a good job in the medical field to pay off those loans. Or by having filthy rich parents willing to dish it out preventing you from ever needing to work at Tim’s.
I can completely sympathize with the OP assuming they were bullied ruthlessly by malicious little fucks like I was. But I’ve gotten over the ones who matured and stopped being douchebags by high school, even befriended some of them.
That’s neat fallingangels, I’ve never thought about it from the point of view of someone who is always moving from school to school. But I went to school with the same (thirty or so) kids from primary to grade twelve through three very small schools and I can name all of them off by heart, last names and everything. There was no escape for me. I get the feeling the OP was in a similar situation.
That’s my bet too Fizz. One of the downsides to small-town living is you get to hang out with the same kids for 12 years. I doubt the OP gives the tormentor much though on a day-to-day basis, but bumping into them again can sure bring back some memories.
One of my best friends is a doctor…and let me just say, when you’re in med school you don’t have time for a PT job…and no, you’re not going to pay for med school (and all the related costs) by slinging coffee. And the crap you have to go through to get into med school does not leave time for slinging coffee either.
She got a loan (loans are handed out like candy to med students by banks, because it’s a pretty safe bet they’ll get their money back) — a BIG loan and had to buy a car, eventually….she owes a lot, but is in the process of doing a speciality that requires doing another speciality first….let’s just say by 2011 she’s going to be filthy fucking rich.
What do they say? “Karma’s a bitch”. I wonder what the people who teased and bullied Bill Gates are saying now. LOL
this has absolutely NOTHING to do with Karma.
Pretty Kitty; in 2011 she’ll still be paying off her loans. Then she’ll have to pay half in tax, and 30% as office overhead. Plus she’ll have to start saving for retirement as she’s not eligible for a pension. She should have declared bankruptcy (which you can/should do with a 150k credit line) at the beginning of residency. Hope she’s started having kids, because if she’s waited too long she’ll be paying for fertility treatments too. But you were right about the jobs thing.
Oddly….that makes me feel better about myself, doubtful 😛
but shhh don’t tell!
Good.
1fallingangels1…same here.
…a new school every couple of years. I marvel at people who can point at friends they’ve known ‘all their lives’, but I think bouncing from school to school was good in its own way, as you described.
Forget being in cliques, but also forget being bullied. Maybe a bully would be recognized as a long-standing alpha male/female and feared by their permanent classmates, but I was not having that. lol
I remember seeing that type and thinking “Who do you think you are?”…and being just plain confused (not angry) about how they would think they could dominate other kids in their class. … Umm…no. 🙂
fizz,
In “I can completely sympathize with the OP assuming they were bullied ruthlessly by malicious little fucks like I was.”,
are you the ruthlessly bullied or the malicious little fuck? lol
Keep a close eye on him as he makes your coffee 😛
To be honest… I too take great satisfaction in knowing that after all the bullying, studying and hard work did pay off.
I don’t run into (m)any of them though so this kinda put it back into perspective.
Thanks OP!
Hey doubtful: you just can’t declare bankruptcy anymore like that. Blame the Gen Xers for that. The trustee will actually make payment arrangements for you. Not to mention too, If you’re a doctor, it’s a bit of an overreaction, considering you’ll never own a home or ever have a credit card again. That sort of attitude is what ruined the system.
I just started working at a coffee shop. It isn’t because I “need” to, it’s because I got bored being a stay-home mom. I certainly have not failed at life.
I’m sorry dude was a jerk to you, but you haven’t responded in a much better manner. Let it go.
I’m sorry, But I must have missed the part where the OP said anything about working at Tim’s to pay off his Med degree…
But anyways…Yeah karma is a bitch. But it’s time to let it go. Taking pleasure in other people’s pain will get you no where in life no matter what he did to you. You guys were teenagers, people change as they grow older.
You’re a fucking idiot who obviously deserved to be picked on.
Doubtful, despite all that debt load….how many doctors do you know with cashflow problems? The debt gets paid off surprisingly fast and despite all the taxes and overhead, they still seem to have enough left over for a decent life. Very few doctors have their vans parked next to mine down by the river.
And Nai Blanc. remember that comment next time you get flamed.
psssft
yea right she’s sayign what were all thinking
WOW! School has changed greatly. I cannot remember anything about Jr. or “high” school *nudge nudge wink wink* , but what I do remember a wee chat my Scottish immigrant father and I had in grade three. We were changing school districts, and alas a new school. My new friends, in my new hood, were warning me about which kids to look out for.Typical of all scottish immigrant dads of the day, his basic advice was…”during your first recess, identify the biggest meanest bully, walk up to him and beat his ass in front of everyone. No one will ever bother you again. Of course he carefully tutored me on how to accomplish aforementioned beating. I follwed instructions (with pounding heart and sweaty palms) to a tee. I was given a very wide bearth from day one. Bully boy wanted to be my best pal as he thought I was just another “better” bully. I quietly told him to never pick on anyone else in the school, and he just blended right in..never noticed him or any other bully after that. Man oh man, that principle could wield a mean strap. I got an extra 2 whacks for “instigating”…it was well worth it. Today, I would have been expelled, counciled, given meds, and my parents charged. We took care of kids who could not defend themselves.
—My Harleys were never worth more than you.
I agree with all who say ‘get over it’. A lot of times kids are mean and bullies because of the shitty life they live at home, because they have an older sibling or even older kids from the same school that are bulling them. I hate those stupid Jerry Springer shows when people bring back a bully from school to say “look how great I am now”. It’s usually the person who has changed on the outside that looks like an idiot and has done no real growing up, and the bully who is apologetic and saying that they had no idea just how much pain they were causing the other kid.
Remember “The more knowledge we have, they easier we forgive”.
Most people (OP probably included) are over it and don’t let it interfere with the rest of their lives. But when you run into that antagonist, you remember, write to LTWWB and get on with your life.
It’s like running into an ex-girlfriend from a relationship that didn’t end well. You don’t spend your time obsessing about them, but when you run into them at the mall it can put you in a foul mood for a bit.
Dr. Fever is correct…Bankruptcy is no longer a shelter from student loan debt…it waits for you so that when you finally climb out of the deep dark pit of insolvency, you are right back where you started.
To start off, This is awesome.. I think the OP got the chance not a lot of people do.
I kept reading, then I read this:
“Dr. Fever is correct…Bankruptcy is no longer a shelter from student loan debt…it waits for you so that when you finally climb out of the deep dark pit of insolvency, you are right back where you started.”
What the heck is that!!!!
Real Chick, that’s not entirely true.
Although some kids are like that based on treatment they received, but most kids are bullies because they just are.
I’ve been to a bullies house. The bully even bullied his family. He was just a bad apple!
Credit line debt and student loan debt aren’t the same. Most med school debt is on a credit line. If you declare bankruptcy at the beginning of residency when you owe 150k (credit line) and your salary is 40-50k per year, they have 1 year to garnish your wages. After that the money you would have been wasting on interest could be invested. Since you have no assets and it is removed from your record after 7 years -exactly when you’ll start earning a much higher income, it works perfectly. You wouldn’t need credit later anyway as you’ll earn enough to buy anything quickly and most will then have a partner who hasn’t declared bankruptcy. It is screwing with the system, but when there is no more credit available and noone can afford to study medicine, they might bring the tuition down from the cash grab 12-20k it is now.
Miles from home: Me, and I nearly bought a 77 dodge camper van last week to do just that, do you know of any good parking spots? Yes at 40 I should be comfortable but nobody practicing medicine becomes ‘filthy rich’, that’s lawyers and businessmen.
To all those saying ‘forgive and forget’ or ‘get over it’, you obviously don’t know what it’s like to spend your childhood/adolescence being bullied relentlessly. Forgive? Sure, to some extent. Forget? Not likely.
Chances are, unless your childhood was really miserable, you have essentially ‘gotten over it’, but I think trivializing the effect that bullying can have on someone is insensitive and shows a great deal of ignorance. That kind of pain at a young and impressionable age can have a lasting impact. As someone who experienced a great deal of torment at the hands of bullies, I can commiserate with the OP in how great it feels to realize how spectacular your life is in comparison to some jerk from the past.
When I moved back to NS a couple of years ago, I experienced a good many of those kinds of situations; some dickwad who thought they were hot shit in high school, now fat and fugly, living in a trailer park behind the mall, with four rugrats and a job at the tire plant. It’s truly satisfying to see the look of recognition on their faces as I smile and go on with my fabulous life. I don’t care how petty it is, it’s a small and harmless retribution, and it feels awesome 🙂
All of you preaching forgiveness can take a hike, it’s awesome to meet someone who made your life hell and realize you’re better off than they are. Sure, it may be a little spiteful, but it’s fun.
This isn’t an after school special, bullies usually stay that way. Bitches need their comeuppance.
AMEN!
How else are you supposed to rate girls if not by their breast sizes?
Just as an FYI for those who think student loans are exempt from bankruptcy protection: They are, but only for ten years. Ten years after a person leaves school, that student loan becomes just another debt with no special status in terms of bankruptcy. Actually, I think it might be seven years now, but I can’t be bothered to google it.
It’s 10 years but realize this… if you’re going bankrupt and haven’t used the education the student loan was extended for you can get it chunked into the bankruptcy but you have to fight for it