To the person who found it necessary to say something deliberate and cruel to me. I know you hate my fucking guts – you’ve made it clearly for over 10 years that you wish I didn’t share the same damn planet as you did and that I’d go away. I haven’t gone away and I don’t choose to. I’ve managed to stay out of your way as much as I possibly can so that I don’t get in your way, and so that I don’t have to be on the receiving end of your rudeness. You’ve hurt me before and you did it again. I don’t know why you think that’s a good thing, but clearly you do. Why the hell can’t you simply leave me be?

We have friends in common, a lot of them and as that is the case, we’re going to come up against each other once in a while, at a convention or on line or a signing or something. Don’t you think you could just ignore me as I’ve tried to do with you? Is it really necessary to express just how much you dislike me by saying mean, spiteful things that most, oh I don’t know, most adults, most grown-ups, what, most mature human beings could have avoided? I don’t understand what gives you your jollies and I’m sure that’s part of the problem - because I’m supposed to understand that you rule and your tastes and ONLY your tastes and opinions matter and it was a better place before people like me existed. Tough shit. You can’t have the planet the way you want it to be, populated only with you and people just like you. Most of us manage to deal with that. I don’t like having you around either, but I get past it. I wish you would too. I’m sure you’d be pleased as hell to know you wrecked my day, but I’m not going to say so where you’ll see it because there’s nothing to be gained by calling you a shit publicly. I just don’t get why you can’t leave me alone, go past my posts or whatever. I don’t know why you feel you have to attack me and bait me and be so cruel to me. I’ve never done anything to you, never, although apparently just being around is enough to infuriate you, and then I have to go and be somewhere where you want to be. Get over it. I’m not leaving. Now could you please just shut the hell up and stop attacking me? I tend to mistrust armchair analysis, but I have to wonder at someone who stoops to insult and rudeness when he could just grow up. I guess some people just enjoy being spiteful and cruel for whatever reason.