Life long grudges or I would still kick his ass.

[Iron_chet]

The fighting thread got me thinking of the times I was beat up as a kid. I also remembered that there was a big family of 13 kids down the street. Their mother was paid to baby sit me and I was friends with the boys and girls my age.

One of the older brothers and his friend would always take my bike and torment me. I remember thinking that one day I will be stronger and I will track you down and get my revenge. I was bored one day at work and googled his name and found his obituary from back in the early 2000s. Looks like he overdosed after being in and out of jail.

He was a piece of **** as a kid and it looks like he was a piece of **** as an adult however he did leave behind a daughter which made me sad. I doubt I would've kicked his ass if we crossed paths but some grudges run deep.

Anyone you would **** up today if you had the chance?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Anyone you would **** up today if you had the chance?

Yes.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I would beat the snot out of my 21- and 25-year-0ld selfs.

 

[QYFW]

Open the ****ing politics thread.

 

[forever_town]

Absolutely.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

The fighting thread got me thinking of the times I was beat up as a kid. I also remembered that there was a big family of 13 kids down the street. Their mother was paid to baby sit me and I was friends with the boys and girls my age.

One of the older brothers and his friend would always take my bike and torment me. I remember thinking that one day I will be stronger and I will track you down and get my revenge. I was bored one day at work and googled his name and found his obituary from back in the early 2000s. Looks like he overdosed after being in and out of jail.

He was a piece of **** as a kid and it looks like he was a piece of **** as an adult however he did leave behind a daughter which made me sad. I doubt I would've kicked his ass if we crossed paths but some grudges run deep.

Anyone you would **** up today if you had the chance?

Do we know the same guy? This guy who was an asshole to me more than once in HS I found out not too long ago died in like 2009. Very little detail. Sounded like a drug overdose to me. It made me happy.

 

[Buck]

Charles Smith

 

[User 149557]

The guy in the dorm room next to mine freshman year of college who played The Doors on a 24-hour loop, smelled like he bathed in cabbage water, left bowls with food particles sitting on the bathroom vanity and started stealing the care packages family sent me.

I am the world's least violent person. I have the temperament of a chill golden retriever. But that guy...

 

[Ace]

The Gannett board room.

 

[da man]

No there's no one I would beat up -- mostly because I am small and unathletic and probably couldn't anyway.

But one phenomenon I don't understand is that of people I knew and despised long ago (and who felt the same about me) trying to friend me on Facebook.

I didn't like you then. What makes you think I want to be "friends" with you now?

 

[typefitter]

No there's no one I would beat up -- mostly because I am small and unathletic and probably couldn't anyway.

But one phenomenon I don't understand is that of people I knew and despised long ago (and who felt the same about me) trying to friend me on Facebook.

I didn't like you then. What makes you think I want to be "friends" with you now?

That is a weird phenomenon. Related: Just because you seek forgiveness doesn't mean the other person is obligated to give it, and it doesn't mean they're now the problem. You shouldn't have been an asshole in the first place. It's on you.

 

[QYFW]

 

[Dick Whitman]

No there's no one I would beat up -- mostly because I am small and unathletic and probably couldn't anyway.

But one phenomenon I don't understand is that of people I knew and despised long ago (and who felt the same about me) trying to friend me on Facebook.

I didn't like you then. What makes you think I want to be "friends" with you now?

There is a guy I grew up with who was kind of an asshole back then. Hell of a baseball player. Major league asshole.

We're Facebook friends now, have shared a beer, played in a fantasy baseball league together, interact with each other's posts about baseball all the time. He still gives me **** about hitting two home runs off me when we were 11.

He grew up. We share common interests.

Plus, if you come from the same town, played Little League together, that's a pretty deep shared experience.

Who cares what the dynamic was when we were 15?

 

[User 11148]

For a long damn time I carried a grudge involving a neighborhood kid who was four years older than me. I ignored/stayed away from him even after we grew up, even though I grew three/four inches taller and could easily have taken him. I had absolutely no interest in opening that wound.

Then, he went into my (and my father's) line of work. And then, one spring, my father (ignorant of the whole thing) hired him.

A week later I fired him. That was a very, very satisfying day.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I worked with a guy 30+ years ago. He asked me for gas money to get home and said he would pay me back the next day. I gave him $10.

It was his last day. He had given notice and hadn't told anyone -- and apparently asked everyone for gas money that day.

It was only $10 but I'd gladly beat that ****er into next week, even 30 years later.

 

[typefitter]

For a long damn time I carried a grudge involving a neighborhood kid who was four years older than me. I ignored/stayed away from him even after we grew up, even though I grew three/four inches taller and could easily have taken him. I had absolutely no interest in opening that wound.

Then, he went into my (and my father's) line of work. And then, one spring, my father (ignorant of the whole thing) hired him.

A week later I fired him. That was a very, very satisfying day.

I was elected Valedictorian of my undergrad. A guy (who had also been nominated and lost) started a petition to have me removed as Valedictorian. (He lost again.) Years later, he became a semi-famous sports mascot dude. He called me up hoping I would write about him.

nom nom nom

 

[LongTimeListener]

I worked with a guy 30+ years ago. He asked me for gas money to get home and said he would pay me back the next day. I gave him $10.

It was his last day. He had given notice and hadn't told anyone -- and apparently asked everyone for gas money that day.

It was only $10 but I'd gladly beat that ****er into next week, even 30 years later.

I'm sorry for your pain, but I want to buy that man a beer. And give him $10.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I was elected Valedictorian of my undergrad. A guy (who had also been nominated and lost) started a petition to have me removed as Valedictorian. (He lost again.) Years later, he became a semi-famous sports mascot dude. He called me up hoping I would write about him.

nom nom nom

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I worked with a guy 30+ years ago. He asked me for gas money to get home and said he would pay me back the next day. I gave him $10.

It was his last day. He had given notice and hadn't told anyone -- and apparently asked everyone for gas money that day.

It was only $10 but I'd gladly beat that ****er into next week, even 30 years later.

That's totally worth an ass-beating.

 

[typefitter]

I wish. Mine wore a watermelon on his head.