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3/12/2026 6:01 am  #1


Old toxic monster in our community

You'd think with my experience with toxic people, I'd have known better than to have had anything to do with this woman, although through my job it would be difficult to ignore her (it's complicated). And, yes, at one point I did feel bad for her, and I'm kicking myself for that. 

As a young adult, Old Toxic Monster was on the edge of being famous for her daring (and impressive) expeditions around the world. She rubbed shoulders with famous people and was married to a well-known (at the time) journalist.   
Then she got divorced and moved to a small town. It was here where people were so impressed with her background and in turn began kissing her booty, which fed the monster. I'm sure it's why she chose this place to live--she would be "the big deal." 

Well, she is "the big deal" all right--she has maddened nearly everyone, takes turns targeting people with her wrath, and she's almost like the sick town joke, the obnoxious child who calls out approvingly people who are helping her at the moment while purposely ignoring--or worse--people who have done things for her who happened to disagree with her about something, who "fail" to help her, or who apparently just look at her the wrong way. She can be outright vicious (publicly) to those she imagines have wronged her in some way. And it is EASY to "wrong" this person. She is always "reporting" people. 

Well, I knew it would be my turn one day. People really do laugh about this. In the midst of our crisis with our dog, this woman, angry at me because I did not agree with her about her idea for a public event, texted me an "order" to do something at my job (no, she doesn't work there...she doesn't work). It was a clear anger-induced message  because she had been stewing over me not agreeing with her a week or so earlier. I texted back that I did not want her to contact me about work when I was not there, and I reminded her of my work days and hours and told her we could talk later. 

Well, you do not do that with Old Toxic Monster. She went dead angry-quiet for 2 weeks straight. Then this week I got an email from her at work with underlying threats about how I was mistreating a disabled person. She threw a few other zingers my way. I forwarded the email to our director. I was on fire. 

There is honestly a part of me that feels like, "B, you have finally met your match." I have such a distaste for bullies. Her "issue" is that no one ever strikes back . . . no one ever puts her in her place. That is my impulse, although I know that reaction would further feed the beast. I think we are just going to ignore this. But, I have to be honest, it's been a couple rough weeks and this kind of stuff is deflating. I know she's a miserable lonely b living in a nasty hovel because of her own poor planning and actions in life, but I see why she lives like this and why she's so miserable. At her core, she is a nasty, spiteful, ego-driven person. 

Unfortunately, she has inserted her nasty self in so many aspects of the community (to keep torturing people, her favorite pastime) that I will never be "rid" of her. I just need to keep my head about me and be a stoic, non-reactive sane person. Wish me luck. And thank you for letting me vent (again). 
 


When someone shows you who they are, believe them. 
 

3/12/2026 12:52 pm  #2


Re: Old toxic monster in our community

Ugh, Mia - she sounds utterly vile.   "Mistreating a disabled person"?????  I would stay well away and don't worry because karma will get her in due course.  It can't not.  

 

3/12/2026 8:25 pm  #3


Re: Old toxic monster in our community

Kes wrote:

Ugh, Mia - she sounds utterly vile.   "Mistreating a disabled person"?????  I would stay well away and don't worry because karma will get her in due course.  It can't not.  

VILE is the word. I can stay away to an extent, but there is a complicated clusterF she has inserted herself into in our town. And in a way karma has already gotten her. The sad part is it will indeed get her (more) in the end. There were whisperings of doing an "honor the Toxic B Day" in town (of course not with that name), but no one can bring themselves to doing that without vomiting for days on end, so her karma is that she will die with no fanfare and will be remembered as the sick toxic monster that invaded a nice, calm town while living in a house that should have been condemned ages ago, all the while pretending she's the queen.  It's incredible how delusional people can be. 


When someone shows you who they are, believe them. 
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3/13/2026 4:01 pm  #4


Re: Old toxic monster in our community

Sounds a lot like my family's small towns background in some ways.

My mom's parents and extended families all are centered around a very small rural town where the Southern Baptist church that my GGGPs donated the land for and hand built the first Sanctuary for is the epicenter of family power and dynamics.  Though the rest of the community couldn't care less at this stage in progressing history.    I have a couple of fade-ingly distant cousins who still think that they and "we" are something special there.  We are not.  Though I will say even in my 60s if I visit my baby bro at the family church cemetery and stay overnight in town a number of people know who I am, who my GPs, GGPs, et al... are, etc... Even now.  One quadrant of the cemetery is both sides of my mom's mom's family, another side/corner is  my mom's dad's family.  Our family section is right in the middle.  Both of my GPs and my baby brother are currently there with owned plots surrounding them for my parents, my family, my brother and his family.  Though I, and maybe my bride, will likely be the last of the Mohicans who go there.  Even then it will likely not be all of our cremains as some of those will go to various adventurously accessed locations and in my DW's family spots.  Our main joint memorial will go in my family's dirt.  That church cemetery has a tradion of notable above ground memorial stones.  Another memorial or two will be placed with part of our ashes in my bride's family's dirt.  In two locations. One in her biodad's family  dirt, (he was killed in a car accident while my MIL was pregnant with my DW) and one in her parent's dirt.  At least that seems to be the current plan.  Though my FIL (DW's StepDad who raised her her whole life) is split.  Half of him is in the mountains overlooking the valley where MIL, FIL and DD first lived for a couple of years after they married when DW was 2mos old.  Half of MIL will join him there.  I was the one who remembered to pin the GPS coordinates for the spot where FIL was spread into the wind.  The rest of FIL and MIL, when it is her time, will go into the family plot in the small town where DW and her three younger Sibs were born and MIL and FIL made their lives together.

My dad's side of the family is multigenerational pretty much all in the same small lead mining town in the Ozark mountains.  Not nearly the generational jockeying for position that occurs in mom's clan, but interesting in that only my GPs left.  The did retire there after nearly 30yrs over seas.  They are in the town cemetery.  Dad road trips to put a flower on their stone and on the stone of his aunt and uncle (GM's sister) and to visit his cousin. The closest thing to a sib that dad has.  The interesting thing about that town is that it is very economically depressed but has always had people pulling into pick up their food stamps driving new Cadillacs.   It used to drive my granddad nuts.  He would rant for days about it when he would grab me to go on a greasy spoon cafe adventure when I was visiting them.  They kept a PO box at the local PO which was also the food stamp office. So when we would check the mail while out searching for the best never cleaned pot of chili or toaster cooked chicken fried steak and it was food stamp day, it would set him off to no end. 

But as usual, I digress.


If you can't listen, learn, & think, you will have to feel. -  WLR
 

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