I'm on a roll.

Twice during the month of January I dealt with mean-spirited people whose viciousness was directed at me for absolutely no good reason. I mentioned the girlfriend of my friend M already, and that situation still leaves me scratching my head in amazement. She was so crazy that I was never able to work up a really solid anger about her being so hateful and accusatory. It's kind of put away now....I'll never see the lunatic again and I'm doing all I can to be supportive of my friend in hopes that he can be successfully single until the right girl comes along.

Last night was quite different, as I enjoyed my second bout of being randomly mistreated. These guys were acquaintences - friends of friends - and had a sketchy track record of being assholes to other people, especially where alcohol happened to be involved. Well, let's just say I endured a minute or two of a real, honest-to-goodness, seventh grade style bullying that was directed entirely at me by two adult men (my Lord!) These two big, stupid dumbasses evidently have to get their metalhead jollies by mocking, offending, abusing, and insulting people who have done nothing but be nice to them. It's retarded, and I'm disgusted. Are these really grown men? One of them is my age, for God's sake!

I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt and excuse bad behavior as much as I reasonably can. I know as well as anyone than about black moods and being annoyed, but these guys seem to honestly think there is some coolness or virtue to verbally hammering innocent people out of pure meanness. One leads, the other mostly follows and laughs along (as is the norm for bullies and their sidekicks.) The thing that really ticks me off worse than anything else is that I have gone out of my way consistently to to be very, very nice to these two horrible people!

Well, I'm done.
Absolutely freaking done.