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Friday, September 02, 2005

Good and bad apples

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A disaster brings out the best... and the worst in people. I guess you can probably tell I'm talking about the Katrina destruction in Louisiana.

I think it's great that people from other states are putting together relief goods for the victims. Texas gets extra points for being the first state to offer help :-).

On our way to Walmart to go grocery shopping yesterday, however, I came across one of the bad apples.

One guy in his car yells to someone holding a "Please help" sign in front of a charity drive: "Go back to New Orleans! We don't want you here!"

I was stunned and disturbed by that. Stunned that someone would say it so openly, and disturbed that someone could be so insensitive. Okay sure, I can understand why he might be angry. Gas prices shot up in the last couple of days. It's a little inconvenient for everyone right now. But at least *he's* in a car going back to his house and home at the end of the day. The victims these people are collecting for have nothing.

I told Steve about it while we were grocery shopping. "Well honey, you have to understand," he said. "Sometimes there are people who are just jerks, and there's nothing that anyone can do or say to change that."

"I guess that's true," I replied, after thinking about it a little bit. "In a normally distributed population, there should be good people and bad people."


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