[Texan5]

Oh, awful! I'm glad he ended up looking like the ass**** he certainly was.

My ex wasn't into public scenes as a rule, but under the influence of too much alcohol, he would act out in public. Really embarrassing. Once, he bragged about his new mistress to me when we were eating dinner at a very nice restaurant after we had separated, supposedly to discuss a possible reconciliation. He made all sorts of comparisons unfavorable to me, from age to the fact that I was too skinny for his taste. When I reminded him that this was risky behavior, he said he wasn't worried about my making a scene, because he knew I was too much of a lady to do such a thing. Since we had come in separate vehicles, I stood up, dangled my keys in his face, smiled, and whispered that I was leaving, and I would key-scratch his brand new truck on the way to mine. When he tried to jump up and grab me, I reached across the table and overturned his platter of food into his lap, ran out to the parking lot, got into my truck and drove away. I wouldn't be so petty as to scratch a nice new car, especially since some of my money had gone into buying it, but he didn't know that. That is the worst scene I have made in public in many years, and it still makes me feel good to think about it.

[Gabz]

it still makes me feel good to think about it.

Good for you!!!! I would have loved to see the look on his face after the plate landed in his lap.

One night I was having dinner with some friends,it was a Friday, the place was crowded with an hour wait for a table, so since we had been able to get seats at the bar we ate there. After dinner, just as we were discussing whether to get another pitcher of beer or head back into town to our regular waterin hole, the ex (he wasn't ex yet, we lived apart weren't divorced yet) walked in with a buddy. Needless to say, that made my decision about another pitcher real fast. 2 of the 3 folks I was with knew him and also made a quick decision about heading out. The only one unaware of who he was, was coolbreze, the guy who is now my husband!!!

About an hour later they showed up in the bar downtown, and dimwit makes a beeline to where we were all sitting and taps coolbreeze on the shoulder and says "Excuse me, I would like to speak to my WIFE"

In order to preserve peace I agreed to sit in a booth and speak to him. All eyes in the whole place were on him and I could see him getting more uncomfortable by the minute. At one point he started to reach across the table at me, and 4 guys stood up from the bar - he retracted his arm real fast.

He got up to leave shortly after that, but not before the bar manager informed him he would no longer be welcome in there at any time that I was in there!!!!

What makes all of this so funny is thathe claimed I wouldn't and couldn't ever leave him because I wouldn't make in that town without his "name and clout" and within the space of 2 months of my leaving him he got banned from the 2 most popular watering holes in town and my political "clout" got him a job after he lost his and couldn't get one on his own!!!!

All of this took place in the spring, summer and fall of 1988, but sometimes it seems like just yesterday!!!