This is why we can't have nice things ...
You fill your apartment with nice furniture, a nice stereo system, a spiffy flat-screen TV and home theater set-up, fancy stylish shelving units for books, art work and other artifacts.
You conscientiously strive to keep your unit neat, clean, and in overall good upkeep.
Then, one day, an explosion occurs in the unit occupied by the idiots who live above you who have apparently been operating a meth lab from their own place of residence.
...and, on account of someone else's greed and stupidity, you wind up losing everything you went so far out of your way to attain and obtain.
Such is life in a "free society" where "the other guy has rights and liberties too".
You fill your apartment with nice furniture, a nice stereo system, a spiffy flat-screen TV and home theater set-up, fancy stylish shelving units for books, art work and other artifacts.
You conscientiously strive to keep your unit neat, clean, and in overall good upkeep.
Then, one day, an explosion occurs in the unit occupied by the idiots who live above you who have apparently been operating a meth lab from their own place of residence.
...and, on account of someone else's greed and stupidity, you wind up losing everything you went so far out of your way to attain and obtain.
Such is life in a "free society" where "the other guy has rights and liberties too".
Sorry to hear that you lost so much.
ReplyDeleteI didn't.
DeleteThis is just a fictitious hypothetical situation.
I'm just trying to make a point about how a lot of us have to "answer for" problems caused by others we have no connection to.
"Accountability" seems to mean being occasionally scapegoated for some of society's stupid problems the individual had no hand in causing.
I guess my writing must be quit convincing if I'm able to impress upon my readers that I'm relaying an actual personal life situation.
Delete"...quite convincing ..."
DeleteOr it's a lesson to not fill your home with nice furniture, TV's etc.
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