I'm hopeful today. Yesterday was a better day than the day before, which had been a really tough one. Today I hope I can just go on doing my job as I have done it for the last several months, minus the last week or so before yesterday, and be on with my life and my job. I am hoping for no more opposition. If someone is staying away from my place of work (who has been a participant, not an employee) due to their own decision, that is no fault of mine. Even if the person has blamed me, it is his own decision to stay away. I am not to blame, no matter how many people want to TRY to blame me. I have finally come to that conclusion. In other words, I am not at fault for having defended myself against this person's anger. He is responsible for having gotten angry at me for something that clearly was not something to get angry at someone for (that my jacket, unbeknownst to me) was sticking out in the bus isle about maybe at most 4 inches and supposedly in his way. This was NO REASON for him to attack me verbally, nor was there any reason for him to do so. That I came back at him with the same tone of voice which he had just used on me, was by no means something that should have surprised him (even though I had been taking his snide comments and bullying for that many months silently). A person can only take so much, and on that day I had HAD IT! I am only human and I can only take so much. Really, I took far more abuse from him than I should have, and that is only because I HATE confrontation and anger. However, I have my breaking point and he reached it that day 2 weeks ago yesterday, by verbally attacking me with high volume anger. I responded in kind. No one is blaming me for that, thankfully, although there are a few of his friends and my immediate boss who have either given me the cold shoulder or have in some way said that they refuse to take sides. Still, no one has taken any negative action against me concerning having lost my temper, so I am relieved! SIGH.... (of relief).