11.
Go to a meeting for work. Coworker says to opposing counsel “hey, do you want to meet GlutenbergBible? He’s here” and gestures back at me standing in the hall with a bunch of files. This motherfucker looks me up and down, turns back to my coworker, and says “no.”
12.
My ex-husband and I were on the road to divorce. I had done absolutely everything I could possibly think of to turn us around, and as a last ditch effort, I wrote him a letter. I knew it had a 0.1% chance of doing anything, so it was also kind of a “thank you for the good years” letter, too.
We were living with his parents because originally, we sold our house to make an upgrade. I guess that was his window of opportunity. Anyway, his mom found the letter and not only read it, but took pictures of it and shared it with multiple people, who started tearing me apart via text.
How did I know this? She never hears her phone go off, so I would usually bring it to her. I went to do that and saw the mentions of a letter and saw the context of what was sent. I didn’t say anything, just set the phone back down and went outside to get a breath of air.
Later that week, she said she was tired of me being around and that he needed me to sign the papers then and there and I didn’t get a say in anything. I mentioned sharing the letter, and she said she was allowed to do that because it was in her house. Therefore, it was her property.
Still trying to wrap my head around that one.
And then they sat there and watched TV while I packed my things.
13.
Not the most, but definitely up there in the top 10.
Kids on the bus held me back and yelled to the bus driver, “He isn’t here!” So I had missed my bus stop and had to walk home. They did it again the next day, but I fought back in time and, when I was leaving the bus, the door caught a strap on my back pack and began to drag me with it. The strap finally snapped and I went rolling forward. I just laid there for a bit on that hot afternoon.
14.
I had someone I considered a close friend send an unprovoked email outing me to the entire staff of the place I worked. Not only that, he took a screenshot of an online dating profile as proof and told them to keep their kids away from me. (I was a teaching professional at a country club.)
15.
In 11th grade a long time friend told police I broke into his house and stole some Gucci bracelets. At the time I didnt know what a Gucci was.
Got a call to go down to the principal’s office where a lieutenant from my local police department was who started questioning me about the incident. Said they had witnesses, and knew I committed the crime during a 30 day period. Demanded that I tell him where I had the bracelets asking if I pawned them, at 16.
Ruined my high school, kid was super popular, soon the whole class looked at me as some kind of thief, teachers included.
Ended up dropping out of school, because I had become public enemy number one.
Nothing ever came from it.
16.
Locked my new bike up outside a supermarket and ducked inside to get some yoghurt because it was Friday night and that’s how I de-stress after a long week.
Self-checkout line was busier than expected but I was in and out in about ten to fifteen minutes. Didn’t want to leave it for too long because someone had pinched the seat from outside my house a couple of weeks earlier.
From a short distance I could see my bike was facing the opposite way I’d left it and felt a little confused. I got closer and saw my U-lock looking like a pretzel. It seemed like someone had tried to wrench off my lock, failed and then just picked up my bike and tried to use it as leverage to pop the thing off, failed again, but succeeded in completely fucking the entire aluminium frame; total write-off, could not be fixed.
17.
It was the night before my 21st birthday. My best friend in college who was older than me was excited to take me to a bar at midnight to ring in the momentous occasion.
Then this girl who had been flirting with him for weeks called to tell him she was having a party.
Thinking we could do both he decided to drag me along before going to the bars.
Now her place was outside the city, and therefore outside nightlife. But, my friend who honestly up until this point was reliable, assured me that we’d leave after an hour so I should call my other friends to meet us downtown.
I’m sure you can all assume we didn’t make it to the bar and some might have guessed “oh it’s because your friend hooked up with this chick.” Well slowdown because this is where shit gets disrespectful.
We go in, hang out, she’s all over him and tells everyone to come go skinny dipping with her. We can both see the danger signs flashing and decide that now would be a good time to go.
Unfortunately she took offense to this and calls him a slut while smacking him across the face.
She starts crying and tells us to get out before chucking a bottle of vodka at his car shattering the passenger side window where I was sitting. This is while we’re driving away.
He stops, screams at her and I got to spend my 21st birthday giving a statement to the cops and picking vodka soaked glass out of my shoulder.
18.
My roommate in the military was in a different unit. I had to be up at 5am. He had to be up at 8. It was 10:30 at night and I asked if he could stop talking on the phone while I’m trying to sleep or go outside and he responded with “it’s not my fault you have to get up early.” And continued his conversation.
19.
20+ years ago when I was in 6th grade, an 8th grader spit on my bike, then in my helmet, then on me.
I punched him in the face. One of my friends saw all this, ran up and also punched him in the face.
He ran home.
20.
I was new to my middle school. This middle school was in a small town where everyone knew each other and I was nervous since I knew absolutely no one.
I walked into the cafeteria on the first day where we had to wait until the bell rang to go to class. I looked around and realized everywhere was full except for this one space at the bench-like tables. I headed towards it and asked the girl who was in the space next to it if I could sit there.
She looked up at me, gave me a dirty look and asked “Are you homeless?”
I was dumbstruck. I didn’t say anything, but she did shift a bit so I could sit down.
I don’t remember who she was, I don’t remember her face, or even her voice, but her words will always stick with me.