A Blast from 30 Years Ago
From: Jonathan Spanbock (view profile)
To: Philip Garrow
Sent: July 03, 2007 07:56:36 PM
Subject: Hi, from Jonathan !
Philip, Just wanted to say hello and hope all is well with you. Please write and up-date what you have been up too after all these years. As I remember you were a amazing kid . You were always doing some kind of project building thing’s. I want to bet your just the same amazing person as before. Ahui-Ho Jonathan
Jonathan Spanbock was a cruel bully from my childhood, tormenting me from fifth through seventh grade. Nearly thirty years later I received this email from Jonathan Spanbock through Classmates.com asking me to share personal information about my life.
When I entered fifth grade I was physically immature, overweight and I had a bad speech impediment. On the first day I met Jonathan Spanbock I shared information about my life and he used that information to mock me relentlessly for the next three years.
My memory never faded of the day I met Jonathan Spanbock, and I knew that it was not safe to share any information with him ever again. Instead, I replied to his email with my memories of the years that he made my life miserable.
In reply Jonathan Spanbock proved that he had not matured a day past the cruelty and bigotry of his youth. Jonathan Spanbock was a stupid bully as a boy, and grew into a stupid bully as a man.