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Jan 23, 2010, 09:48 AM
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Member Since: Jun 2007
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posts: 5,518
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My husband has been under a tremendous amount of pressure without ANY support. With my illness, I'm more than a handful - very much so lately. Our son is a big help, but he can be a handful too after coming home from war only to find his city is gone and many friends have died. Our dog, a complete "daddy's girl" is gravely ill and won't last much longer. Our house is dangerously fragile - water pipes broken, so he has to do our laundry at the laundromat. The electrical outlets and fuse box sizzle on occasion, there may be a small gas leak, and the crack in my bedroom ceiling has made it clear across the room - at any time, the huge furnace above my head can crash down over me. He's also in poor health himself.
It would be nice if he could stay home and focus on the house, but he has to focus on bringing home the bacon. Feeding me, clothing me, and sheltering me is very important to him.
He works for a small business that installs and maintains business phones. One of his coworkers was injured at work, so my husband is taking on his workload. He was given an order to fix a phone system, but was given no other information - just show up at the address and fix the problem.
He heads over to the site, sets down his tools and gets down on the floor to examine the situation. It's painful because he's very arthritic and has spurs on all of his vertebrae - he needs to use his reading glasses, and it's frustrating.
A woman is standing over him with her hands on her hips. He can tell she's glaring at him, so he did his best to hold it together. He couldn't focus with her breathing down his neck, so he turned to her and said with a smile "You look surprised to see me." He figured the call for service had just been placed, and he got there as quickly as he could. Sometimes people are nice, sometimes they aren't. He was hoping she was just concerned and interested about the system - he would assure her he had it covered and she could go back to her job.
The woman glared harder, then spit out "Yes I'm surprised - I'm surprised to see you bothered to get off your lazy *** after two months, and I'm surprised you STILL don't know what you're doing!!!" 
WTH!!! Oooooooh - such a powerful and strong woman! How I would LOVE to chat over coffee sometime with that BI*CH!!!!!  She has NOOOOOOO idea how much I love my husband! 
If I hear one more time that Mexicans are lazy and stupid, I think I'm going to explode!!!!!
Why do people feel they have a right to treat other human beings in such a way? 
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