Friday, January 21, 2011

John the Blowie

You know when a blowie gets in your house and buzzes around and around, driving you mad? And then it vanishes when you find the fly-spray, and as soon as you give up it re-appears?

My GF had a BF like that.

His name is John (really) and this is what happened.

John was (most likely still is) a control freak in a relationship. He was (most likely still is) a carrier of the worst kind of STD -- Sexually Transmitted Debt. He wasn't a kid-friendly guy, had no job, no prospects, no clue how to run a relationship or, indeed, his life.
Understandably, my GF -- let's call her E -- got jack of this and kicked him out. The problem being, John, like a blowie, wouldn't go.

It's hard to put into words just how much he wouldn't go away.

He physically wouldn't leave, and then when he finally did drive off, he kept coming back.
He rang constantly. E was reluctant to answer the phone, so he would ring and ring and ring and ring until she did.
He took the sliding glass door off its' tracks one night and let himself in, which scared the crap out of E, who had thought she was safe in her own home.
He crept around in the dark under my windows, listening in to our conversations.
He followed us around town, mysteriously appearing in the shops we were in.

He even disabled her car in the main street, so she couldn't drive away from him.

Of course, we went to the police, and took out a restraining order. Which he promptly breached, not once, but again and again.

One time, he broke into her house and destroyed my much-loved grandmother clock, which Es' dad had repaired for me.
We went to see his (much more sane) brother, to see if he could help, and John was there. We snapped. I grabbed him but E got her arm over the top of me and slapped him so hard his glasses flew off and folded themselves up in mid-air, landing neatly on the nearby table, as if to say, "Oh, no, I really don't want to see what happens next!"

Finally, the police took him on stalker charges. We appeared in court, and gave evidence, and at last, he was put in jail.
We weren't overly happy about the jail part, but we were thrilled to bits that after all this time, we could finally know exactly where he was, and not have to think about him every minute of the day!

Until the letters started arriving from jail.... he gave my name and address to his CELL-MATE, who was in clink for 6 years and would love to come see me when he got out!!!
I countered that problem by getting married and moving house (thanks, honey)

He drove us completely bat-shit for a while. But I'm so thankful that at no time did he actually hurt us -- and I don't remember being afraid that he would, even at the very height of it all. (although I was very concerned about Cell Mate.)
There are women out there who are living with much worse every day, and while we can laugh about the whole mad episode now, for many, it's not a laughing matter. Ever.
It's never OK to bully, intimidate, hurt or frighten people.
(I'm cool if someone wants to intimidate Cell Mate though)

9 comments:

  1. hehehehe YUKKY PIC though eeeeyyuuu!!!! luv your GREAT NEW FACELIFT (blog) hehhee

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  2. I hate flies.
    But,
    I love your updated blog design. I thought it was good before but this is very nice! :)

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  3. Honey, that is kinda funny (especially the glasses bit) so SO NOT FUNNY! I can't believe you had to put up with that. I would be petrified. It's just so creeeeeepy!! Glad it all turned out okay in the end. There are some very needy, very strange people around. x

    PS - your blog looks great! My colleagues will no doubt be pleased...!!

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  4. Love your new header! As you can imagine, I find this kind of thing nothing but alarming and it makes me angry. I was at the police station just 2 days ago reporting on yet another violation to a restraining order. I imagine I will spend the rest of my life speaking out about this kind of thing.

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  5. Hey! Love the new design - thought I'd clicked on the wrong link for a minute!!

    Can understand wanting to get away from 'blowie', but isn't getting married a bit extreme?

    Seriously though, this kind of thing makes me SO ANGRY. There MUST be an alternative to restraining orders - they're so often ineffective. I don't know what it is though - any suggestions?

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  6. I'm happy that you both smacked him a bit.
    Love your new look.

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  7. Man, he sounds like a complete freak show! What is with that? Am glad he is no longer in your life. I hope Cell Mate doesn't find you! Love your new look!

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  8. I just don't get what drives people to treat people like that. It is an awful thing to go through I suspect

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  9. I know the feeling. I have an annon email stalker who is following me and my now ex partner, the have managed to break us up, and telling us our every move. I went to the police numerous times, but they would not do anything about it until the person started sending letters to my house. They have mentioned my kids, my house and what it looks like, where I have been and who with...hopefully they will be able to get the ip address now and we can get the mentally unwell person charged. This has been going on for nearly a year now!

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