Rou

Happy New Year.

And welcome to another year of screaming into the ether.

I went to a friends house for new years eve. A nice little party with some close friends. Have a few drinks, tell a few stories, and toast the new year. A wonderful plan.

Something went wrong. One of the guys decided to greet the new year and some not-so-holiday cheer. Let's call him Bob for purposes of anonymity.

The basic gist of the story is that the host's girlfriend made a joke and the results of that joke went awry. You see, they have a water spritzer in the house to spray the cat when it's doing something bad. Someone commented on it, and she picked it up and explained it's use. Then she laughed and said "Hey, maybe it's good for all sorts of naughty people". And she sprayed Bob with it. He got a little light mist of water on him. He laughed, we laughed and a good time was had by all.

But Bob is not so easily slighted apparently. An hour later or so, he gets a glass of water, waits for an opportunity and suddenly, out of nowhere, he throws it in her face. We're all basically stunned. Someone tells Bob that was uncalled for. He responds by throwing a beer bottle across the room (just missing the girlfriend's head by about a foot) and shoving the person.

At that point, all the guy tackle him and hold him down (he's a really big strong dude). We hold him down for a long time while he continues to struggle and take swings at us whenever we lose our grip on him. He twists his knee pretty bad and earns a few cuts and scrapes in the process. Finally, he calms down, and after a lot of coaxing, he finally gets his shit together, and leaves (with his designated driver).

This sort of thing happens from time to time with him. He doesn't control his anger very well when he gets really really trashed. He's done similar things before, and has always been mortified and ashamed the day after. After a few weeks of repeated apologies, things go back to normal. In the 10 years I've known him, this is the 3rd time this has happened. I say this to clarify that they are rare incidents and he's normally an OK kind of guy.

So a few days pass, and today he emails me asking me if I'm alright and if he hurt me or anything. I reply that I'm fine. Just twisted my elbow a little bit, but no big deal. I asked how his knee was doing.

Then he replies. How I wish that he's just stayed silent.

He told me that his knee was still hurting pretty bad. Then he says that he still hasn't heard any apology from the host or his girlfriend.

I'm just stunned at this point. I have no idea what to say. But he continues.

He goes on to say that she's a bitch and he doesn't like the host when he's around her because "he's a different person".

I mean seriously. She spritzed you with a mister. You threw water on her and then a beer bottle in her direction. Then attacked us when we tried to restrain you. You're waiting for THEM to apologize? Going to be a long time waiting pal.

I have precious few friends in my life and it'll be a damn shame if your name is crossed off that list, but quite frankly, your behavior here was unacceptable.