What's a douchebag you ask? I think there are many versions.
- Someone who goes out of his way to put you down or make you feel bad.
- Someone who's CLEARLY wrong about something and doesn't admit it.
- Someone who thinks every statii positive or negative on Facebook is about them.
- Someone who can't laugh even when a situation calls for it.
- Someone when you tell them you are offended by their brand of humor continues to "joke" with you and then questions why you ignore them.
- Someone no matter how many ways you explain it will never see your point, but you can see theirs.
- When more than one straight guy get together douchebags emerge.
- Anyone who's first name is meant to be a last name like Anderson or Channing.
- Victor Newman from "The Young and The Restless."
- High School/Family/Work bullies.
- Brett Ratner, Perez Hilton, LeAnne Rimes, Mo Mandel, Ramiro & Krazy Kulo from Jamn 94.5, E! News.
- The couple that brings their children under 17 to Rated R movies.
- Someone who makes/thinks you should choose sides.
- Someone who gets "mad at you" because you are "mad at them."
- Someone who tells people about your shortcomings behind your back...that you've told them.
- Someone who is friends with the douchebag and doesn't tell him he's a douchebag.
- Whoever changed the layout for iTunes.
- The person in the movie theater that sits one seat away from you when the entire theater is empty.
- Every driver that doesn't use a turn signal.
- Every driver that sees you coming down the street and waits till you're up close to them to turn.
What I began to realize is I spend far too much time on douchebags. Being nice. Being funny. Including them in my jokes both at home and work. 2013 I need to stop. I need to stop turning the other cheek and just simply walk away.
The past three days I have spent away from my house away from the original douchebags (my mother and half brother; oddly enough my mother is the only real female douchebag I've ever met). I did have a conversation with a friend this weekend. He was telling me the douchebaggery of a mutual friend. My jaw hit the floor. Some of the things this mutual friend was doing I just couldn't believe. Underhanded. Manipulative. I was in shock. My heart hurt over it. WHY do people do this?
A challenge for myself starting to day is ridding myself of douchebags. It's pretty easy to spot a douchebag too. As I sit here and go over the inventory of guys I'm friends with in my head I have at least 20 off the bat I need to dedouchebag myself from. This shall be my mission :)