HappyAsianGuy

Bullies Never Learn

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

I don’t know if I’d characterize this as a “bully” event. It was more rude than anything else. Here’s the background. I went to our community park to shoot some hoops. Someone was playing half court and so I shot on the other side of the court. Then these two guys came onto my side and after shooting around for 2-3 minutes they decided to play one-on-one against each other. They didn’t bother to ask if it was cool…didn’t ask me if I wanted to play 21. Just started playing one-on-one. Hello…I’m still here assholes!

Since I live in a peaceful, nice community I didn’t want to make a big deal out of it but I was seconds away from saying something to them. But you know, it’s not really worth it. I would have said something and they would have retorted and then who knows what would happen.

I’m in my 30’s but sometimes I look like I’m still in my teens (I got carded for a rated-R movie last year). So sometimes I wonder if people just think I’m some young dude they can push around. Luckily, I have a lot of self-confidence and some close to me even think I’m inwardly arrogant. So I don’t have self-esteem issues or anything and I wouldn’t go loco on anybody. But in light of all those school shootings where the bullied get revenge on the bullies, you’d think these punk ass bitches would learn. I’m not saying that the bullied should respond w/ guns blazing or anything. That is so, so wrong! But you push a man to his limits one too many times and if they’re mad enough (especially if they’re irrational - again, luckily I don’t fall into this category), they’ll go bonkers and get their revenge. I’ve never been bullied before but this sort of felt like an indirect bully job.

Too bad I’m not in my 20’s. I would have taken out my aggression on these bozos and brawled. That would’ve been fun. But now I’m an old, married papa. Can’t do any of that so I had to take the high road and I just left. It’s so tough to take the high road sometimes but I think I made the right choice. Regardless, those two guys are arses.