If you’re anything like me, you don’t appreciate when people aren’t responsible for their own actions.
I have a hard time feeling bad for anybody who causes their own problems.
It’s difficult for me to sympathize with folks who make bad decisions and then want to cry about the results down the road. Frankly, I just want people to be logical and make good decisions so I don’t have to hear about it when everything falls apart. Recently, I was sitting in the office when one of my co-workers walked in and started losing her mind. She was absolutely bawling and it was pretty preposterous to watch. When she finally calm down and we were able to figure out what was wrong, it was even more ridiculous. I mean, who cries over air conditioning? The answer is, my co-worker does. On this particular day, she was bawling her eyes out because her central air conditioning system had failed earlier that morning. She said she had absolutely no idea what to do about the cooling system and she was at her wit’s end without any modern air temperature control at home. It was the middle of summer, so the days were extremely hot and humid. For a few moments, I actually felt bad about her situation and wanted to assist with the broken HVAC plan. As I talked to her for longer, however, I realized that she was to blame for this entire scenario. Apparently, she had never serviced her air conditioning equipment in 10 years. She left the cooling system cranked down to 60 degrees and went out of town last week. When she returned, the AC was suddenly broken. What a surprise.