Imagine getting a phone call from the gardener at your out-of-state family home. Now imagine your gardener telling you that your house and your belongings are nowhere to be seen.
That’s the call a Dallas woman received recently about her family home in Jackson, Mississippi.
It turns out that a Jackson State University contractor demolished the wrong house after a “prankster” (way too mild a word) made it look like the woman’s house was the one designated to be razed, instead of a university-owned house. Said a University official, “I’m sad that we made the mistake, and I wish that we hadn’t. It was nothing intentional.”
The apology started out so promising…and ended up so utterly ruined. It’s the implied “but” just before the last sentence that ruined it.
And the homeowner agrees, [Read more...]
Hugh Prather’s on my mind.
. It had been sandwiched between two larger books on the top shelf of a very tall bookcase. I didn’t even recall still having it.
What happens when you forgive someone?