Spite

Today (Wednesday) was my day to have dinner with my mom, which I do every week. As most of you already know, my mom is the most important person to me and so it makes sense that we share a lot. One of our conversations tonight was about my step-dad’s ex-wife’s ongoing struggle to purposely piss off her ex-husband and, by extension, my mother. This time in the form of child support, a horribly flawed system but I’ll cover that another day. We’re talking about spite today.

This woman, we’ll call her Kodi Slutmeyer, lives in a million dollar home (which means a lot in Tennessee), her husband is a pilot whose income is in the 80k range. She purposely holds a low-paying, part-time job so my parents child support is ridiculously high. Eight hundred dollars a month high… for one 15 year old boy. So my mom and step-dad are working their asses off to pay this pampered, spiteful superbitch. And she does all this, why? Because she’s jealous and vengeful.

I don’t understand how someone can have the capacity to want to actively ruin someones life. I know revenge feels good but I only use it when it’s all in good fun; no one actually gets hurt. What do you do when someone is purposely attempting to destabilize you? Do you fight back even if the law is against you? Do you sit back and wait for karma to kick in?

I’m a huge proponent of the karmic, biding of time approach. You take what they dish out with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. That in and of itself will piss them off but then karma kicks in. Bites them in the ass, threefold. It’s fun to imagine (a meteor falls from the sky, as if sent by God, crushing the house and young Kodi. Shame), which makes the waiting slightly easier. That’s not to say I wouldn’t mind giving Mrs. Slutmeyer a proper bat-beating but only if karma put the bludgeon in my hand…

What would you do? What can you do if the (utterly useless) law is against you? Right now all we can do is wait. But I can say this; my dreams tonight will most likely involve a double-decker chocolate moonpie, frozen yogurt, and a karmically charged blunt object.