Wow, I was honestly expecting you to chew me out further when I clicked on this post and I'm very happy that you apologized! Thank you so much. I feel bad myself because I wrote you off as an a**hole to be honest and didn't even conceive that you might have simply made a mistake. In times past I would have reacted to your initial post with vitriolic rage, but I have been learning to be civil, understanding, and reach agreements with people in the last few years. This was an exercise in that learning process and I'm truly grateful it worked out. Look what might have happened had I responded in my old ineffective and misguided way! We never would have come to such an understanding and would probably despise each other. This teaches me also that I need to be careful when making flash judgments about others. There is something called "the fundamental attribution error" which is a bias that causes Americans to perceive any negative action on another person's part as intentional and global to their character rather than as accidental and situational. It's clear that you are a well meaning and kind person who just acted out in one situation, and had I considered this possibility I might not have felt so bad about it in the first place.

Thanks for the kind words and understanding.