Interesting for the Beach Altercation and this thead to mix. How quick emotions can build, how different sides and perspectives can be. How those who consider the various viewpoints might differ in life (worried about others - hold back), to those who focus on their own view (prioritise own needs - go getting).
Couple of decades back, my father died unexpectedly, and about 2/3 weeks later the Food Hygiene People called regarding a food complaint he had made (unrelated to death we understand) - we found it funny at the time, thinking perhaps they should act quicker to investigate suspected food poisoning, and also what use are they. Perhaps we should have told investigator ‘your too late’, we did think it. — On the same day of his death, it was snowing heavily, I had crashed company car on way to work (minor damage to bumper hitting a fence post on a bend) and drove home, thinking safer than driving the hour+ to work, and would work from home (laptop and dial up Internet). I saw my dad briefly, as he popped in and went back outside, he had office buildings at home, and he collapsed moments later in the quieter imaging area of the offices. Staff found him, I tried resuscitating, to no use, from memory it was a ruptured aorta. Ambulance took over an hour in the snow. A work colleague called me up, shortly after hearing about the crash to laugh at me and left a message on my mobile of pure laughter, I actually found it funny in its own right, but not at the time (was numb), just lousy timing, but not his fault. He didn’t know what to say to me for a while. He normal practical jokes were a bit more subdued after that, for a while at least. — But strangely, it was a lady in Sainsbury’s a week or so later, jumping the queue at the pharmacy, that saw me overreact. It was probably an honest mistake on her part. Wrong day on mine.
