“when you work in the industry you do not have a normal life, evenings, weekends, holidays with your family/ forget it.” This. I worked in food service for almost 20 years….server, cashier, hostess, office person, bartender, banquet arranger….I never had a holiday with my family that I didn’t have to leave early or arrive late because I had to work. The up side was that my work family was a very close knit group…we had group outings of all kinds, and to this day I keep in touch with some of them. Food service is not an easy or well-paid job, nor is it for fluff-brains as some seem to think, but sometimes it fits your life at that particular time very well.
I never have understood the offended by door holding thing. As a female, I hold (and open) the door for anyone behind me….men, women, elderly, kids, differently abled, people with their hands full….it never occurs to me to be upset because someone would return the favor.
Are you being intentionally obtuse? If there are reasons to not adopt a dying loved one’s pet(s) then you see them adopted by someone who will love them and care for them. I, personally, could no more tell my dying mother “sucks to be you” than I could fly to the moon. If you are capable of that, then you are a different type of person than I am.
