Scott Pruitt

From the comfort of anonymity, I will write you, dear DU reader, the memory that came back to me this morning while I was reading the internet.

In early middle school, my group of friends were the dungeons and dragons, atari 2600, ride our bikes to the arcade crowd. My really, really good friend had a debilitatingly painful crush on a girl. The truth was, and I never told this to anyone, I had a crush on the same girl. But he was like hopelessly love sick, and I really didn't want to make it worse for him by letting it on I had a crush on her also. Middle school and emotions are weird. So when we group of boys were talking about girls, I said I liked this other girl, I didn't even know her, she was a cheerleader type and obviously pretty, but I was just saying something so that my friend wouldn't now I liked the girl he liked. I just pulled her name out of my arse. Anyway, somehow that got out in the bigger audience of basically the whole grade. And, little did I know, but apparently this guy Scott Pruitt (who was in a jocky clique) actually had a crush on the girl I had a fake crushed on. So I got the target. The next part is my public humiliation that somehow ended with Scott Pruitt and the cheerleader girl being girl friend / boy friend.

I remembered that this morning when I was thinking of how I have disliked him for like 38 years. It is so surreal that every time my 50-year-old self looks at the internet, there is story after story of basically the entire world learning what a prick that guy is. I am adult friends with a man that went to school with George Bush. I thought that maybe I understand a little of how it was for him, but honestly his experience was different. He really, strongly disliked Bush's positions and didn't think he was qualified to be President, but he got along with him as a kid and never actually disliked him or anything. He had a hard time trying to be clear that he didn't support him but he liked the guy and didn't hate him or anything. So my surrealness is different. Basically everybody that has a soul can't stand the guy.

It's really weird. I just wanted to tell you.