PTOWN - GREAT TIME!!
Jul. 16th, 2007 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenBear Week 2007 was fantastic. We had a great place to stay - very central and cool - shaded by a few trees, and really good A/C. Then were all the friends - old and new - that showed up. Had a blast hanging out with all of them. Then Matt and I had dinner for his birthday - just the two of us as he wanted - at Crowne Point, which was EXCELLENT! Another great thing was that all the drama in Ptown with multiple people was around us, avoided us, and we avoided it... needless to say, we, thusly, had a wonderful, relaxing, drama-free time.
The only exception to that was the moment I got slapped for tickling a friend, which I had done MANY times before, so it was quite normal and most likely expected. I tickled him in front of someone he was hitting on and I didn't realize that until afterwards why that "friend" had smacked me so hard (I had a headache for the rest of the night because of that slap). This "friend" is one side of a monogamous couple and had a physically abusive father when he was a child - apples like that don't fall far from the tree. Why then the hysteria with my tickling him? Well, he was trying to make a macho impression on this other guy (who, btw, WAS hot and handsome, but also a very sweet guy). The way my "friend" reacted was anything but macho!!
Nice "friend", huh? I don't do violence. Some people say that if you wrong them once, then they will forgive and forget. For something like violence, I forgive, which I have, but I don't forget. I'm the type of person who will not give the violent person the possibility of exacting that sort of reaction again... so, ciao, "friend". We didn't hang out with him or his partner the entire week and we don't have a single picture of him, either. Just noticed that this afternoon...
The only exception to that was the moment I got slapped for tickling a friend, which I had done MANY times before, so it was quite normal and most likely expected. I tickled him in front of someone he was hitting on and I didn't realize that until afterwards why that "friend" had smacked me so hard (I had a headache for the rest of the night because of that slap). This "friend" is one side of a monogamous couple and had a physically abusive father when he was a child - apples like that don't fall far from the tree. Why then the hysteria with my tickling him? Well, he was trying to make a macho impression on this other guy (who, btw, WAS hot and handsome, but also a very sweet guy). The way my "friend" reacted was anything but macho!!
Nice "friend", huh? I don't do violence. Some people say that if you wrong them once, then they will forgive and forget. For something like violence, I forgive, which I have, but I don't forget. I'm the type of person who will not give the violent person the possibility of exacting that sort of reaction again... so, ciao, "friend". We didn't hang out with him or his partner the entire week and we don't have a single picture of him, either. Just noticed that this afternoon...
