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    Callousness

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    My best friend's father was murdered yesterday. Murdered and then the perp tried to burn the body and it took 50 firefighters an hour to put the fire out.
     
    The news kept calling David's dad "charred remains" and "the body". Mr. Klein is David, Mike and Kari's dad, not charred remains and a body. Until a disgruntled employee, fired two days earlier, walked into his office yesterday morning and shot Mr. Klein and Storm, Mr. Klein's German Sheppard.
     
    They interviewed the fire captain, he called the fire suspicious.... no sh*t Sherlock.... and he looked bored. The interviewed the police detective.... they found the ex-employee outside covered in blood and smelling of gasoline and smoke and the detective called him "a person of interest'.... no sh*t Sherlock.... and he looked bored too.
     
    The reporter couldn't have cared less..... Monica Alvarez signing off.... she looked bored.
     
    I remember going to David's house when we were kids and Mr. Klein who was a caterer and restaurateur at the time fixing us these elaborate lunches, no PB & J, we had duck confit and poached salmon. Even when David screwed up in high school, which was a lot, Mr. Klein just had a big deep laugh and shrug and told David to do better next time.
     
    I can't believe how the "system", media, police and fire have already treated this and it is just the beginning of the nightmare, the estate lawyers, the trial, everything. David is just numb right now dealing with the details of what needs to be now.
     
    He has felt the callousness already, but I think he has no idea how much more is in store for him and his family.
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    It is funny how things shift your perspective. My friend whose dad died, we used to talk every other day or so and the conversations usually started with "OMG, you can't believe what this idiot just did...." It usually involved being cut off by someone while driving, someone in the store being stupid, or someone at the office, but every time it flashed into my head this week to call him it made me think how totally trite it all is and life is far too short to let stupidity raise your blood pressure.
     
    He spent a good part of his week at the crime scene, removing personal effects of his fathers, family papers, papers relevant to the family, meeting with the detectives, meeting with the assistant DA, trying to keep his little sister together and planning a memorial/wake. We have talked and he is going through the motions, getting done what he has to get done, trying to keep things together in his personal and professional life too. When he stops being busy will he crash? Who knows. He is pretty stable in general.... now, after years of therapy to deal with his parents divorce.... I just hope he doesn't rush back with his ex who has been around to support him through this, but it ended badly last time and I don't think the tiger has changed his stripes.
     
    Matt is trying to understand mu moodiness and I guess I am too. Stupid things fire me up, I should be stopping to smell the roses and I just want to kick them.
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