Talk about reunions...

[SEATJERKER]

...I'm sitting here this early afternoon, and was just struck out of the blue with a reunion of sorts which I never expected...

...You all remember the "high School bully" in your area, and around here is no different... being today is my daughters 11th birthday, and it's a pretty quiet day around the house, esp since mine started at 4:00 am..., i looked up to see a "express service van" parking out front of my house, and it's not unuasual for packages to arrive here, and around...
...I'm not really paying tight attention to the guy bringing it up to my house, and I open the door to greet him, and take the package, my dog is trying to taste his leg with me hanging on his collar, and out of the blue, the guy calls me by my last name, and I didn't reconize him until he says his name....
...YEP, IT'S HIM, the high school bully, and it just so happens that I haven't seen him in 25 years, and there is just one teeney little problem.......
... The last time I saw him was three weeks before I graduated from High school, and it happened to be in front of the bookstore where I had just punched him in the mouth for hitting me in the stomach, I took 5 stiches on my left hand pinky knuckle when it happened, so now 25 years later, here he is standing in my doorway, and not knowing what the hell to expext...
...he says the customary hi's , and hellos, and I'm just waitng for the old grey matter to kick in , and for him to remember that little matter of me punching him in the mouth...
... he was the middle linebacker that transfered in in his Jr. year, and could do no wrong, on the field, but to everyone else off the field, he was "the classic high school bully" hitting people smaller, and always unsuspecting...
...well, the day it happened, I was walking around the corner of the hallway, and wham, just a short punch to my gut to show his machio image to his friends, well at that point, I'd had enough, and I just hauled off, and planted my best left square on the mouth..., pulled my hand back as the blood was dripping down his chin, realizing my knuckle was split good, and the principle, and other teachers gathered quickly, and I walked away to the nurse, and off to the hospital for stiches...
...I looked at him today, and after a few minutes, I said..."you don't remember do you?, and he says no what...,...I said "you really don't remember do you??? I said, "the last time I saw you, I punched you in the mouth"... he stood there dumbfounded like I had three heads...
...I showed him the scar on my knuckle, and proceeded to watch for reaction, and he kinda shook his head, and said, I guess I deserved it... funny how times change, I'm glad I didn't have a brawl on the front stairs this afternoon after a 25 year old punch...
...told him to stop back, and have a beer one of these days, and he said beer was his middle name, we just might get along now that we have a mutual respect, ...
...no punch me, I no punch you, pass the beer...