@bpcyclist: Thanks. You are so luck you were able to stand-up to your school bullies the way that you did in high school. And way to stand up to that same bully from your high school, when your paths crossed at your workplace. Good for you. You are correct. Bullies never change. They are bullies for their whole lives, unless something happens to them that causes them to have a spiritual awakening or epiphany.

I haven't attended any of my high school reunions either. High school was not a fun experience for me. I ate my lunch in the school library, got locked inside my school locker a few times by the popular girls, and was nicknamed Mallory Keaton from Family Ties. I did get my revenge senior year.

We had an undercover cop a la Johnny Depp from 21 Jump Street investigating drug sales and pot smoking in our uppity Catholic high school. The undercover cop was glaringly older than us and sat behind me in French class. The popular girls were so dumb. I'd pass notes in French narking on who sold what to whom, during French class and at first the undercover cop pretended not to know why I was passing her those notes.

But she eventually broke down and came clean to me, after I told her I would go to the principal if she didn't come clean. I may have been 18, but I wasn't that naive. So, the popular girls got suspended and didn't get to graduate with our class. So, HAH! Mallory Keaton 1, Popular Girls, 0.

@MrsA: Yes, it shocked me. But she used my friendship and goodwill to her advantage during the years I knew her. She also had a penchance for friend-poaching. But, really, if they were easy to poach, they weren't good friends of mine to begin with.

She poached my roommate at the time I was in the hospital and convinced her to move out my furniture and belongings into my mother's house, and moved into my room instead. I found this out after-the-fact. She also poached my then-boyfriend (who broke up with me after I was transferred from the ICU to the rehab floor) for herself and dated him for a bit, before he dumped her and moved to NYC.

She was very attractive and quite socially adept so she knew how to manipulate people without them knowing it at first. I couldn't believe what she said to me the first night I came back to the drum circle, and then later referred to me as Harrison Ford's character Henry like that in FRONT of our drum circle (who btw were all cowards as they didn't intervene when she picked on me and we were all 30 + so it wasn't like we were 18 year olds). I can't believe she is a certified life coach. The irony of that just gets me.