Dear Nes,
That wasn't a bitch. That was standing up for yourself. Which you are good at. Bitching is where you go over and paint the ex-friends husband orange and leave a note saying "Orange is next to Yellow in the Rainbow - your cowardly word regarding my vivid and varied life is crazy stuff, bitch". I believe coloured entertainer Ray Charles had a lovely Hollywood mansion that someone burned "NIGGER" into the front lawn (when he had his own tv show).
I'm close to my Italian nephew/neice and helped out when my sister in law had PND. Other stuff comes to mind but I thought it was all cool. Then one day she tells me she took the kids together and explained that I was mental. As if the 5 or 6 years good relationship, fun, creative, musical, was wrong without the full disclosure. The funny part was that her husband was a total gambler and bit of a loser (he's left and gone o/s) so when my name came up as "mental" the kids absorbed it, thought for a moment, and then said "Like Dad". The labelling transferred back to her own family in a moment of childish emotional geometry. And that guy was normal (apart from the gambling).
You should buy a huge water pistol and train your, as you say, 6 years going on 7 yrs son to fire it at will when certain disrespectful ex friends pass by. I would suggest practising this art form on daddy first. The jet of water might form a rainbow and then you can also have the opportunity of explaining the Orange/Yellow phenonemon. Instant in the street education for all the community. Sometimes I just give my enemies a piece of cheesecake. Totally floors their momentum cos they have to eat it and then hold me in high esteem. Just a change up.
Adios, David.
