This post is - unfortunately - directed at those who went to elementary school with me. So basically, I should formally apologise to Fraser, Caleb, Rachel, Liam and the rest (or is that it?) for a post that you cannot relate to in any conceivable way.

To Andrew and Binks (and perhaps Josh and Brian), this post may have meaning.

Today, I was paying for gas at the Zehr’s gas bar when who do I discover in front of me in the line but Glen, the Filipino student from elementary school, who was friends with Mattie and the rest of us. If you don’t recall, he drew some stellar “anime-style” artwork for a story that Mattie and I were writing. (As an aside, the story remains unfinished to this day, but I still retain the originals and copies of Glen’s artwork).

Anyway, after Glen went to high school and the rest of us remained in the eighth grade (or the seventh grade for Josh and Brian), he and I drifted apart. I found out from Mattie in Gr. 12 history (a full five years after losing touch with him) that Glen was actually a homosexual. And here’s where the divide becomes clear.

When we were in Grade 7, I was looking at everyone’s e-mail accounts and the secret questions that they used, to see if I could cleverly (or so I thought at the time) sneak into them. The only question that I believed I could answer was Glen’s. How would I find the answer? Well, I’d ask him. His secret question was: “What is my favourite Pokemon attack?”

So, at school, I casually asked him. He casually told me. I casually locked him out of his e-mail account, laughed at him, and then returned it to normal. However, during this time, Glen believed I’d read an e-mail that informed me of his sexual preference. And he assumed that I was against it. So, he stayed away from me.

So, yeah. I find out five years later that that’s the cause. This was the first time I’ve seen him in about six years, and I stupidly didn’t say “Hi”. And now he’ll continue to think I’m a prejudiced asshole until he dies. Damn.