I’m mad today. I could write ten blogs with all that has happened, but sitting down to put the events of the day into written words reminds me to let go. I say it all the time in these short stories asking all of you to set down the anchors of anger you are carrying, but here I brought one home with me. I promise by the time this blog is over so will my anger. I will share with you though because keeping things inside is the largest cause of becoming weighted down.
I went to the doctor today and have a clean bill of health. Kidney is out. Infection is gone. I feel better than I have in 15 years. If I wrote it all out in detail only 3 of you would actually read it all, but after a very very hard battle I am relatively healthy. Missing a kidney and I’m 45 years young, but the doctor said I look amazing. I agree.
Leaving the doctors office I played with Annie for over an hour and then went to get into my van. I waited as a guy backed into the spot next to mine. This particular doctors office is always busy. Very busy. For some reason the parking garage only has 4 blue man spots and most times when I go there they are full so I park way up in no man land. I don’t care about that. Today I got one of the 4. The guy I waited for was about 25 years old, jumped out of his car, made sure to not make eye contact with me, and then jogged towards the entrance. Not on my watch. I yelled out “Hey, you forgot your placard!!” He turned around and started saying “My Mom, and this and that”, but I wasn’t having it. I called him out.
He called me a “Beach Butt N-word” (I’m sure you can decipher) along with saying I don’t care if you’re in a wheelchair. I promise at no point was I scared of him. I could see his eyes and he was no tough guy. I laughed and said “The only Beach Butt is you not being able to walk an extra 100 feet”. He jumped in his car and drove away because a crowd was starting to form at this point. I got in my van and left about 5-10 minutes later. I saw him waiting for me across the street in another parking lot and sure enough he pulled behind me. Once he was able to pulled up next to me, threw a cup of ice at me, and then in an exceptional show of strength threw the paper cup at me. Well my van. That is scratched up from years of wheelchair in and out. He really showed me.
F him. F anyone that parks illegally in a blue man spot. One minute after he left an elderly couple used that spot and an old man using a walker went towards the entrance. I don’t regret for a second speaking up for what is right. I only hope that others do the same. A-holes like this guy act this way because they can. I say who cares who is president. We can make our communities kind again. Speak up. There are WAY MORE of us good people than jerks in the world. We have to stop letting anyone get away with behavior like this because it usually only takes one embarrassment to learn a lesson. I hope he tells everyone the story about how a guy in a wheelchair called him out so he waited 10 minutes to throw ice at his car. I bet they will build statues of this guy.
I won’t be afraid. I won’t be bullied. I WILL speak up.
FknBucky
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P.S. I’m not angry anymore. Ha. Bet you forgot about that.
FknBucky 