Interesting way society says to respond to a bully

 As a child, I grew up in a trailer park and attended schools in middle class neighborhoods. Many of the kids wouldn't have anything to do with me because of where I lived. One parent even said to me, "At least I live in a house." Yep, it was a sad time for me.

One girl was really mean to me. In third grade, she grabbed my neck and banged my head against a brick wall. This happened while we waited for school to start. I took my lunchbox and hit her over the head till she quit. I got into trouble for hitting her. I told what she did to me, but they said she said she didn't do it. I didn't have a habit of going around hitting people in the head with my lunchbox, so I am not sure why I was punished and she wasn't.

In sixth grade, my mother made me wear a pair of jeans to school with red hearts and a plain red sweatshirt because it was Husker red day. The bully made fun of me because the jeans came from K-Mart. Her mother had come to school to have lunch with her. As the girl made fun of me for shopping at K-mart, her mother laughed.

The first day of junior high school, the bully announced to everyone that I lived across town and her mother had told her to stay away from me because I lived in a trailer and used illegal drugs. 

Twenty years later, I stopped at Panera to get some lunch during my lunch hour. The bully was there too and with a man. She told the workers that I didn't have any money and they shouldn't allow me to order anything. I was trying to pay with my card, but I was told if I didn't have cash to pay for my order, then I wouldn't be able to order anything. I left in tears.

A few months after that incident and actually on several occasions, I bumped into her at Walmart. She would call me trailer trash as I walked through the store and no one ever told her to stop. I never yelled back or told her off because teachers had always told me to ignore her and she would go away.  Her bullying stopped when I moved.

She recently had to have brain surgery. She doesn't have Cancer, but she has something wrong with her. I saw her posts on social media where she writes about how wonderful God is. She has found God and the world is so wonderful.

Yep, she treats people like crap for a lifetime and then finds God and all is forgiven. I want to say something like you had brain surgery, I am surprised because I didn't think you had a brain. I also want to tell her finding God doesn't fix all of the trauma she caused people. I wasn't the only one she bullied. She actually broke the bone of another child. She is a horrible person and I would like to tell her off, but if I do, I look like a jackass. Plus, it could mess up my future plans, so as usual I have to bite my tongue and say nothing.