Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie
I think I lost ownership of my desk. This is Odie
Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie
Scottie's Playtime 
oh dear scottie, you have been misinformed. odie has only been graciously allowing you to use desk occasionally. the desk has always and will always belong to odie.
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🤣🤣 So true!!! We have five furry family members and have learned that it is they who are in charge … they just let us think that we are!
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Hi Susan. 😁😂💕💖 I am beginning to think you are correct. When I had a much larger office my desk had steps the cats could use to get up on the desk. Odie is to large now and muscle weak to do that now even if I still had the steps to my desk. So now he when he wants up he sits, lays, or stand near me and meows until I unfold his towel I keep on the desk for him, then pick him up. Once on the desk he insists on rubbing everything and having me make of him, rub him, comb him, give him treaties. Oh well. I am a totally own subsidiarity of cat inc. Hugs. Scottie
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we are all only subsidiaries of Cats Incorporates! my otis is quite insistent that i drop everything for scritches when he makes his presence known on my chair.
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I can so relate, Scottie!!! Has Odie finished any of your emails yet? Our Boo finishes and sends mine if I’m foolish enough to step away from the computer for more than a few seconds! Aren’t they a joy, though? Hugs ‘n loves
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Hello Jill. As Ron says Odie is a very entitled cat, one who feels it is his right to be pampered and made of. We do for him, he doesn’t do for us. So no he has not answered emails, but I have left him on the desk only to come back and find the pages I was working gone or the lock screen up. I do wonder what he was looking at? 🙀😹😻 Hugs. Scottie
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“Entitled” is synonymous with “cat”, Scottie! Heh heh … but they are still lovable! Hugs
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Jill Dennison, I have had a few cats over the years. I will admit to being more of a dog person, however, cats are loveable in their own way.
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I was always more of a ‘dog person’ too, until my daughter came home from college with two cats. That was 30 years ago, and since then we’ve had so many cats that I’ve lost track, so I guess that makes me officially a ‘cat person’ … or Crazy Cat Lady! Good to see you … haven’t seen you lately!
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Jill Dennison, I find it to be rather interesting that you say this. As I recall, you indicated that I had been a thorn in your side over the years. Not once did I issue any ad hominems against you on your blog that I have submitted comments to.
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Ah yes, I recall you being a pain in the posterior sometimes, but still …
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Jill Dennison, there must be a communication failure.
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Hi Ragnarsbhut. While you addressed this to Jill, I am also going to reply. Maybe she felt that way because I also feel that way right now about you over our conversation on your schooling. You act like a child a lot of the time, you repeat stuff over and over long after addressed and refuted, you refuse to answer questions. You act more like a bot in training than the 30 year old you claim to be most of the time. You once told me that you have trouble having conversations in comment sections with people. What I wrote here is why. Simply put people get frustrated trying to have a discussion with you. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, the difference is that I don’t offer biting responses or harsh language to any extreme.
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Ragnarsbhut. Again you totally missed the point of the reply. You told me once that people don’t want to have you in their comments sections and either block you or get rude / insulting to you. It is because they get frustrated with you, as I have so many times. Look at our now far too long a discussion on your home school education. You refuse to answer a question, are evasive and vague like it is a state secret. Many times your responses are bot like. You seem unable to process a conversation. Perhaps you are autistic / Neurodivergent? It would explain a lot. It would also explain why you were picked on so badly, a question I asked that again you ignored. So again do you see why people get frustrated and lose their temper with you? It takes a lot to get me angry, but I had to stop you on some topics also. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, I had some students who were behaving in a violent way toward me without provocation. I reacted accordingly.
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Hi Ragnarsbhut. I understand bullying. It is wrong under all and any circumstances. But it normally has a cause. Kids sense the odd one out, they see who is different, the kid who is withdrawn, the kid who acts weird, the kid who has beliefs different from the majority. Understand I am not blaming you for the attacks, but I am saying there was a reason they singled you out Further why did your parents not try to work it out with the school. See there is far too much information missing here for me to understand what your situation was. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, they had heard multiple reports from me in my own words. The teachers in the class indicated that the principal knew, which was a lie, as they never told the principal at all.
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Hi Ragnarsbhut. Again your are too vague to make sense. What reports, what was in them? You already told me that the teacher lied. But again why were you the one picked on? Did you have bad hygiene? did you act funny or weirdly different? Did you have a different religion than the other kids requiring you to pray on a rug in a certain way five times a day? That is Muslim children in case you were not sure. There was some reason you were targeted. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, the teachers saw the conflict and did nothing. What they said was that the principal knew, which he did not. As far as the bullying and harassment, I have no discernable reason as to why it was happening. All I know and remember is that I never instigated it.
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Hi Ragnarsbhut. OK not to blame you or shame you as you were the one picked on. But that you can’t remember why is maybe indicative of a problem you were having at the time. Disassociation or a medical issue.
Many abused kids have it. Normally people will say that kids picked on me because I was shy, or I was feminine acting, or I had a different religion, or in cases of some abused kids I smelled funny. I just thought of this and added it here, different race or skin color. Or some kids have autism making them react differently to social stimuli, or as a few wonderful kids I knew who were mentally challenged. If any applied to you that is no excuse to abuse you, but kids are stupid sometimes unless they have adult guidance which clearly you say they did not get from the teacher. So there was something different about you that the teacher did not like. In North Carolina … are you black or non-white? Are your parents immigrants.
Again I am not saying you did anything wrong, I am really trying hard to understand what happened and why. Thank. Scottie
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Scottie, one boy got very aggressive with my and I think singled me out in particular and for what reason I had no clue. The last time I fought with him physically, the other boy initiated it by punching me in the back of the head and then I really decided that I had enough and give him his own bitter pills. We were both subjected to a one day suspension, however, it was ultimately decided to remove me from the environment permanently.
In that case, we had a separate class we were going to. My lack of recall is if it was art, music or physical education. No, the issue was not a like or dislike from the teacher. What the issue was is that the teacher claimed that the principal at the time was repeatedly told. According to him, after my Father came to get me, there was the revelation that the principal was unaware, so the teacher was clearly not reporting the events honestly. Violence in any form is distasteful to me, however, in any attempt at provocation to physical conflict, the instigator deserves whatever level of retaliation the victim throws back.
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Hey Ragnarsbhut. Again any abuse toward you as a child is not acceptable. You were the victim. But two things you mention stand out to me. You say one boy singled you out and you had other interactions with him. So he had a beef with you. Yet you have no idea why? I wonder what was going on in that boy’s life to cause him to be against you. What made him act out, were his parents pushing him to do so? Was he trying to prove himself to his peers. I don’t blame you for fighting back, the fact that you had not or had not had the support of the teacher may have encouraged him.
Since you were not in the same class before your attack it was not anything you were doing to him right then. Again I have seen in both public and Christian school that the person low on the hierarchy of students often get picked on or attacked by other students so they can keep or increase their own status. It sounds to me that this boy had a beef with you. I still wonder why. What did he want from you that you did not give him?
You say it was decided you would be removed. You already said your parents took you out of public school. But what did the school say of the incident? You say the teacher did not tell the Principle what was happening … so that means it went on for a while … but what was the Principles reaction? Was he trying to understand or only listening to the other student? Were you both in the room with him or did he talk to you alone.
You say it was not a dislike towards you by the teacher … but then you say she lied about something very important. See the disconnect? Why did she not tell the Principle the truth of what happened? Why did she tell you that she had? Seems very strange to me if she did not have an issue with you or your behavior, but seems to side with the other child. Again this doesn’t absolve the other boy of responsibility, I am just really trying hard to understand.
As to violence. I agree. However there are times when it is necessary for the correct reasons. I carried a gun for a lot of my working life. The rule was you never pulled your gun unless you were willing to kill, and the only reason to kill (which is called deadly force) is to protect yourself from death or grievous body injury or to protect someone else from death or grievous body harm. I realize that modern law enforcement doesn’t feel that way and the things they do today would have me up on charges. But that is not what we are talking about. Simply say I agree you had the right to defend yourself. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, it was probably because the teacher probably feared being held responsible for not having control of the classroom.
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Hi Ragnar. Please read the reply I made again. You can’t think of anything different about you from the other kids or anything that happened between you and the other boy. I am sorry but one fight between two 10 year old kids is not losing control. Losing control is when a fight between 5 or more kids happen or the kids simply wont do as the teacher asks. Two misbehaving kids get sent to the hall or the principal like you did. Again not blaming you. You were clearly the victim of the other boy, but I am trying to figure out what the other boys beef with you was? By the way, did you have other friends in school or were you a child that did not make a lot of friends, who preferred to be by themselves? Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, in that case, I really preferred to mind my own business and stick to the books. I only spoke when spoken to and left it at that.
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Hi Ragnar. OK so you were a shy introverted boy. Were you always that way or only in 5th grade? What about 1st grade or 3rd grade. So really it seems you had one enemy, one kid who for some reason picked on you and at the same time you never made any friends. Do I understand the situation? Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, in the public school setting as I recall, I really kept to myself and only interacted with students in the same classroom as I felt inclined. The only time interaction was forced against my inclinations was when fights were started that I never contributed to.
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