People Suck (present company excluded)

Picture the following: your spouse just found out that one of their parents had suddenly passed. It is a holiday and life must go on so visits etc are made. Your spouses parents live outside the country so they have to catch a late flight to make it home in time for the services. You arrive at the airport near midnight only to find you missed their scheduled flight. They are placed on standby and told it may be as many as five hours before a seat opens up.

Now I am sure that most of you reading this would do the following. Take your spouse to Starbuck's or some other establishment. You would sit with them. Comfort them. Listen to stories of life with parental unit. Regardless of your schedule. If it took all night you would be their offering whatever solace you could.

If you were normal that is.

This happened to someone I know yesterday. While I am not very fond of the husband I did not realize what a heartless bastard he was. His wife's father passed away Easter morning. For the entire day he complained about how this dying business was imposing difficulty on his life.

He did take her and her four year old son from a previous relationship to the airport at midnight. She missed her flight and rather than wait with her and the child offering solace, he left claiming he needed to sleep because he had to go to work in the morning.

The depths that some people stoop in how they treat other's should no longer surprise me. I should expect it but a part of me keeps looking for the good in everyone and I am feeling quite naive.