This morning I’d planned to take Celia to visit some puppy dogs and when I rang her she was upset over the unexpected death of an old friend overnight. Thankfully my brain engaged and I didn’t say anything thoughtless or stupid.
Not so the other day at work. A man came to the counter to make a donation, his wife had died at the hospice a couple of days earlier. While she was alive he had been making regular donations towards her care, and when I was filling out the paperwork he anticipated some of the info I had to record. I commented “oh good, you know the drill.. should give you a job here..” instantly I knew it was such a dumb thing to say. He replied “I don’t think so thanks”. That poor man!