My Current Friends are a Major Major Upgrade

[rockettqween]

Went out tonight. Saw someone from the old crowd. Ex-friend of my ex-husband. He was rather trashed and thought it was OK to fondle my ass. It was most definitely not. I was playing pool at the time and my reaction was to spin around and point my cue at him and say, "don't fucking do that!" But he grabbed ahold of my precious Lucasi and said, "You know better than to point a weapon at me." I lost my shit but couldn't properly react as the manager of the bar walked in between us. For some reason I was livid. Only certain people are allowed to touch me and they know who they are. My friends seem to have a pretty good sense of my boundaries. That's why they're my friends.

I was taken back about 7 years ago, in the U-District Last Exit days. I had a bad reputation. Through my own naivete. I learned. And I left. Almost no one from those days has any contact with me. I keep it that way for a reason. My so called "friends" from that era only seemed to want me for sex, money, or chemicals. Fuck those losers.

I hate running into people from that time period. However, the incident, although it was distressing and made me feel like I'd been slimed, served as a reminder that I've made the decision to have better people around me than I used to. I guess I don't hate myself as much as I thought.

I don't ever have to hang out with people like that again. Cool. Taking control of your life is not a bad thing.

The Last Exit (Seattle's Oldest Coffeehouse) went out of business a couple of years ago. May it rot in pieces.

Comments

[geekalpha.livejournal.com]

Just chock me down in the 'better people' catagory.

sorry that you had to go through that

[cryfordawn.livejournal.com]

but I think you're right that it shows how much your life has improved.

I have to say that I think you have really gotten some of your shit together in the last couple of years.

Go you!

Btw, do I have ass touching privileges?