Make a developmentally disabled boy cry, lose your family.

My former boss is the worst human being I've ever met.

He did all sorts of things to mess with anyone he didn't like.

So a while ago, I was at a family event in a local park,

walking with a young boy from our family who is developmentally disabled with Down syndrome.

Ben.

Ben does fairly well, all things considered,

but he's always been sensitive to anyone making fun of the way he looks or his condition.

We're just having a good time on our little stroll, Ben and I both enjoying the day.

Along comes my boss, walking towards him. I'll call him Rob. I cringe at seeing him, but

smile and say hello to play nice. He says,

There's something you don't see every day. A pair of ugly assler walking together. At this, Ben

burst into tears as Rob laughs and walks off. I deal with Ben and ignore Rob. I'm super angry

and trying to calm Ben down because for a few minutes

he was totally distraught. Finally, I get Ben to focus on how he has me and a lot of other

awesome friends and family and that Rob is a stranger and what he thinks doesn't matter. We walk some

more and I saw that Rob was at the park with his wife and teen daughter having a cookout

and he'd apparently been on his way back to his family from a trip to the toilet when he saw us

back to being super angry. I went back to our gathering and talked to an adult cousin of mine, Jake,

telling him what had happened. Now Jake wanted to get revenge on Rob but I reminded him that this was my

boss. I didn't want Rob to be able to know the revenge had anything to do with me, because then he'd make my work life even worse than he already did. So Jake asked me for anything I knew about Rob that might help. I told Jake a bunch of things, but the relevant info here is that Rob liked to drink a particular kind

of locally made beer at a certain bar. Robert talked of having a drink there on the previous

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