So, I’m at the kids’ back to school night, right? And I get to Seamus’s class and sit down while he goes up to his desk. And the woman sitting right by me says, “Hi Seamus, did your mom just dump you off?”

And I damn near blew my top. I said, “That would be me” and gave her kind of the evil eye. I was sitting right there! See, some friends of the asshole have their kid in Seamus’s class. Seems someone’s been talking trash about me when I’m not around. Somehow, I suspect her more than him.

The woman totally stumbled all over herself when I said that and her husband tried to play all nice, “Oh, nice to meet you” and all that bullshit. But I was not impressed. She totally knew that she put her foot in it. And they looked like people I would otherwise like.

Who do asshole and his wife think they are to talk trash about me like that? I’ve NEVER dumped my children off anywhere. If they see them at their dad’s without me, it’s because HE requested it for boy scouts and I conceded because the boys wanted to do it. These people probably have no idea what their friends did to me, and they think I’m the asshole? Hey, I was the one who was abused here, and if it looks like I left, well, I did for very good reasons.

I’m fuming. They ruined my whole evening. Not so much the stupid people, as the assholes who put those impressions in the stupid people’s heads.