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Originally Posted by garinda
ls anybody here brave enough to admit to bullying? We can't all have been victims to it, or bystanders.
Are bullies bullied themselves, and they find the power it gives them fills a deep void? Like l mentioned before, l know quite a few people l considered bullies at school, who are now great people, [apperently,] and have children of their own.
l know it's a bit off thread but is sort of related.
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Strange thing that. About 15 years ago I was having a drink at the bar of a pub in which I played the drums. This guy walked up to me and tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around and immediately recognised him as a lad I was at school with from being 11 to 13. I smiled and said "hi", holding out my hand for a shake. "Never mind that!" he said and proceeded to tell me how much he hated me at school because I bullied him. I retorted that I never bullied anyone as far as I knew but that, certainly, I'd had my share of fights and maybe he was one of them. He would not hear of it and insisted that I had bullied him. I said perhaps it was mistaken identity, but he gave me my correct name and told me who my main friends were at the school. So I told him we would have to agree to disagree as I certainly did not recall such a thing. At the end of the night he came up to me and shook hands and said he was glad to get it off his chest and I haven't seen him since. I really don't remember doing any such thing. Also, I once had a house which had a faulty dampcourse. The dampcourse had been renovated by drilling and injecting silicone into a course of bricks prior to my buying the house. I knew who had done the job so gave him a call and asked him to come round. When he arrived I made my complaint that we had rising damp and the guy started going on about the fact that the bricks were 100 years old. I didn't see how that could make a difference and I told him so at which point he turned around and walked out of the house. Next day I received a call from his son saying that I had no business threatening his father. I really didn't make any threat. However, maybe a threat was perceived and I suppose that is the important thing. Maybe I come across as threatening when I don't mean to be! Ah well, don't mess with me you lot.
