{"id":46025,"date":"2011-06-22T01:10:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T05:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/46025\/bullies\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T01:10:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T05:10:52","slug":"bullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/46025\/bullies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullies…"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of days ago, I was walking my small dogs when one of them relieved herself between the sidewalk and the street – a strip of land that belongs to the county….not the homeowner, or in this case the renter of the house at that location.\u00a0 Unfortunately for me, it was the house with the bully.\u00a0 The same bully who came home one night, music blaring and drunk as usual, to cuss and yell at me that my dog was pooping in his yard.\u00a0 She was doing a wee wee… on the public strip.\u00a0 She is all of 7 pounds and she urinates a spot the size of a silver dollar exactly 3 times on a walk.\u00a0 But, in the dark of the night and in his alcohol (and God only knows what other substance) fogged mind, HE DECIDED that my dog pooped and therefore, he was judge and jury to condemn me with harsh words.\u00a0 Further, he informs me that if he EVER finds poop in his yard that he will put it in my mail box.\u00a0 To which I think….hurry up because I surely can’t wait to file federal charges against the bully.\u00a0 That was more than a year ago.\u00a0 I have rarely walked past his house since that night.
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I’m not the only person he bullies.\u00a0 He is an indiscriminate bully.\u00a0 Anybody will do…actually…because it appears that he hates everyone.\u00a0 How sad it that?<\/font><\/p>\n

I often wonder what makes a bully tick.\u00a0 I’ve wondered for a long, long time because I first became a victim of a bully when I was about 6 years old.\u00a0 A boy down the street would not let other kids walk on “his” sidewalk in front of his house.\u00a0 I was terrified of him, so I walked out into the street to get past his house, then back onto the sidewalk.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I fixed my eyes straight ahead so that he wouldn’t have something to say about if I looked in his direction.\u00a0 I was timid and easily frightened.\u00a0 I was tense and my stomach was in knots.\u00a0 Not so much has changed.\u00a0 I still feel that way – the tension and the knotted stomach.<\/font><\/p>\n

Very recently, I made a decision that I wasn’t going to be bullied ever again.\u00a0 And 2 days ago when the bully decided to bully me, I called him an asshole.\u00a0 Yep!\u00a0 And it felt great!\u00a0 And the next time he bullies me, I will call him an asshole again.<\/font><\/p>\n

As I was picking up the poop from the strip of land between the sidewalk and the street, I spotted a HUGE poop right next to my little dog’s lady thumb sized poop.\u00a0 I informed him that I certainly wasn’t going to pick up poop from every dog in the neighborhood and that he needed to watch the street a little better.\u00a0 I was tempted to call him an asshole just one more time, but I restrained myself.\u00a0 I only fight back…I don’t bully.<\/font><\/p>\n

I am waiting with anticipation to find poop in my mailbox.\u00a0 I can hardly wait to file federal charges. \u00a0 \ud83d\udc7f<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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