Today I went to the post office to ship out some things. There was this angry lady complaining to the manager about her son not receiving a package out in Iraq. It went on for awhile until it finally blew up into a big argument. The man suddenly got real emotional and explained there was nothing he could do. He kept telling the lady to call the navy base instead, but the lady kept at him. She talked to him like it was his fault, which was totally wrong. He got furious.
Turns out the man had his own son in Iraq, and even served in the Vietnam War himself. He knew where the lady was coming from but the lady talked in a wrong attitude, out of frustration. The man left and took a break.
As I exited the office, the man was just sitting on a bench with his head down.
I felt really bad. It just goes to show that you never really know what someone else is going through or went through in the past. So, be careful.
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