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<blockquote data-quote="TheWalrus" data-source="post: 682878" data-attributes="member: 19905"><p>Thank you all. I had a great day today. I got so spend some much needed time with family. They all live far away and we don't see each other much.</p><p></p><p>Then a weird thing happened, unlike me at all. I stopped for gas on the way home and I was sitting in the car as it pumped bc it is cold here, and I could hear yelling and cursing. Loud. Inside my car. I look over and there is this very old, beat up, broken down car with boxes in the back. A ragged dressed man, bundled up, obviously trying to fix something - it was apparent that for some reason it wasn't running - was yelling back and forth with an equally ragged woman sitting in the front seat. Both of them in this brightly lit parking lot with cars and people (who were awkwardly trying not to stare) screaming and cursing each other like no one else existed. At first I got embarrassed for them.</p><p></p><p>I finished filling up and as I drove away, I burst into tears. I was suddenly so sad that this was their situation, their normal, and I wondered what kind of life, what kind of choices led them to this place. These are someone's children, out in the cold, with a car that doesn't run, screaming at each other in total misery and anger. I just felt this very personal sadness for them and it broke me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheWalrus, post: 682878, member: 19905"] Thank you all. I had a great day today. I got so spend some much needed time with family. They all live far away and we don't see each other much. Then a weird thing happened, unlike me at all. I stopped for gas on the way home and I was sitting in the car as it pumped bc it is cold here, and I could hear yelling and cursing. Loud. Inside my car. I look over and there is this very old, beat up, broken down car with boxes in the back. A ragged dressed man, bundled up, obviously trying to fix something - it was apparent that for some reason it wasn't running - was yelling back and forth with an equally ragged woman sitting in the front seat. Both of them in this brightly lit parking lot with cars and people (who were awkwardly trying not to stare) screaming and cursing each other like no one else existed. At first I got embarrassed for them. I finished filling up and as I drove away, I burst into tears. I was suddenly so sad that this was their situation, their normal, and I wondered what kind of life, what kind of choices led them to this place. These are someone's children, out in the cold, with a car that doesn't run, screaming at each other in total misery and anger. I just felt this very personal sadness for them and it broke me. [/QUOTE]
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