LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA: SCREW 'DEM BULLIES
The guy who bullied me at my secondary school was c**t. He picked on the weak. I was on the end of his nastiness for the best part of 5 years. I wasn’t the only one. I saw him very abuse a woman while she was in the midst of an eating disorder, to threatening to punch someone smaller and weaker in the same year. I remember it clear as day: The guy was scared out of his mind. Fast forward – sweet Lord – nearly 30 years – and he’s apparently married, and he married a very gorgeous woman. It didn’t surprise me, because he was able to be exceptionally funny and charming. Except that his humor was aimed at making other people feel miserable (“Satan can charm anyone, baby!”) Some years after he contacted me to send his condolences about my recently-deceased wife and to apologize for his behaviour towards me, if you can count an attempt as a justification of his actions with"I WAS BULLIED TOO, YOU KNOW" would have led to a great reaction (Note: It didn't), around the tim...