Not to insult the retarded......

Unlike most my real world tales, I will not preface this one with something to do with work. This may or may not be a coworker, but I will not tell. I have an acquaintance, who has a single male child. This male child is a piece of work, well as far as I can tell, having never met him. All I hear is stories. Rumor has it that child was written off as "not intelligent" by mom when he was in high school. Well Junior (his nickname for story purposes)is 21, maybe 22, has no job, no drivers license, no friends and never known the touch of a woman (a man? well that might be possible). Junior does nothing all day, not even college, but that happens when you fail remedial coloring for the 3rd time (damn staying in the lines). I would say the kid is a retard, but i don't want some Louis Farrikan type guy in a helmet drooling on himself, coke bottle glasses, saying "don't insult the retarded by including us with him" (in the slowest speech possible)
So what has incurred my wrath? Nothing recently, but my friend and I were talking one day, with Junior's mother afoot. We were discussing the acquisition of some Star Wars figures related to the new movie coming out soon (this was a while ago). We discussed how we went to different shops, looking for the individual figures and so on. Well the next day mom comes back around, and says "oh I told Junior about what you said, he said you need to get a life!" Floored, I couldn't react. It is very rarely that I am so shocked that I have nothing to say. In fact everyone else just got really quiet as well. My friend and I just kind of stared at each other, unsure what to say. Here is a deadbeat kid, in the truest sense of the word, insulting me, a college educated, gainfully employed person, and my friend, married, owns a house, college educated. To this day that still bothers me. I don't know why.....