Wasted
Posting from: Tucson, AZ
Listening to: Amanda Monaco 4, d.
I joke about whether 2006 will let me out alive, but today it's not funny.
A week or so ago, we were having cake and ice cream and wishing about nine people well who were retiring from the company I work at. One of them was a fellow (R.) who I hated working with but strangely thought was a really nice person. He just drove me nuts because he was very forgetful and kept asking me the same things over and over, failed to show up on time for any of my many meetings but one at which his attendance was needed, etc... Just before Thanksgiving, he showed up for the last time at one of my meetings. I saw him across the break area heading for our conference room. We made eye contact and suddenly both of us started laughing and we broke out running for the room from different directions. I won. He said, "Darn, I thought I was going to get there before you for once." And I replied, "I damn sure wasn't going to let you do that." Then he drove me nuts for the rest of the meeting by asking all the same questions all over again that he has asked at every one of my meetings for the last year.
He was fairly high up on the management food chain. I'm in a shared double cubicle. The next cubicle up is the unshared single cubicle. Then above that is the kind of cubicle that R. has- the unshared double cubicle. So he was fairly well off financially and also pretty young as far as retirement goes. His plan was to move to Las Vegas to be with his family once he retired.
Last week we were all a little jealous of this guy. This week I think we're all glad we aren't him.
Today we got word that his son was killed yesterday in Iraq after his vehicle drove over an IED.
I can't stop thinking about it. I wasn't mentally plugged into my drum lesson tonight, and I accidentally drove past my house on my way home. I just keep thinking that this is another life wasted for nothing. Just wasted.
Update 13 December:
A newspaper article says this fellow was just 21 years old. The nanny state just barely started permitting him to drink alcohol because we all know how dangerous that is, but they sure as hell have no problem sending him and younger people off to their deaths in pursuit of killing other people for the sake of a bunch of lies.
The newspaper apparently contacted his dad already to get a quote or something. His wife, too. He apparently leaves behind a nineteen-year-old widow just a few days before they would have celebrated their first wedding anniversary.
Today it seems like there's no sense or human decency left in this world.
Listening to: Amanda Monaco 4, d.
I joke about whether 2006 will let me out alive, but today it's not funny.
A week or so ago, we were having cake and ice cream and wishing about nine people well who were retiring from the company I work at. One of them was a fellow (R.) who I hated working with but strangely thought was a really nice person. He just drove me nuts because he was very forgetful and kept asking me the same things over and over, failed to show up on time for any of my many meetings but one at which his attendance was needed, etc... Just before Thanksgiving, he showed up for the last time at one of my meetings. I saw him across the break area heading for our conference room. We made eye contact and suddenly both of us started laughing and we broke out running for the room from different directions. I won. He said, "Darn, I thought I was going to get there before you for once." And I replied, "I damn sure wasn't going to let you do that." Then he drove me nuts for the rest of the meeting by asking all the same questions all over again that he has asked at every one of my meetings for the last year.
He was fairly high up on the management food chain. I'm in a shared double cubicle. The next cubicle up is the unshared single cubicle. Then above that is the kind of cubicle that R. has- the unshared double cubicle. So he was fairly well off financially and also pretty young as far as retirement goes. His plan was to move to Las Vegas to be with his family once he retired.
Last week we were all a little jealous of this guy. This week I think we're all glad we aren't him.
Today we got word that his son was killed yesterday in Iraq after his vehicle drove over an IED.
I can't stop thinking about it. I wasn't mentally plugged into my drum lesson tonight, and I accidentally drove past my house on my way home. I just keep thinking that this is another life wasted for nothing. Just wasted.
Update 13 December:
A newspaper article says this fellow was just 21 years old. The nanny state just barely started permitting him to drink alcohol because we all know how dangerous that is, but they sure as hell have no problem sending him and younger people off to their deaths in pursuit of killing other people for the sake of a bunch of lies.
The newspaper apparently contacted his dad already to get a quote or something. His wife, too. He apparently leaves behind a nineteen-year-old widow just a few days before they would have celebrated their first wedding anniversary.
Today it seems like there's no sense or human decency left in this world.
posted by Kirsten | 12/12/2006 09:59:00 PM
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