LoadWB's Journal: Of landlords and mentors

So, now that we've settled with our old landlord, I can say that, in my opinion, our former landlord is a miserable old, man-hating bitch. We got everything settle by way of her lawyer, and not once did we ever have contact with her during this whole fiasco. Seemingly against the idea of small-claims, but whatever it takes. My girlfriend and I settled for an amount which made us happy, recouped a large part of our expenses, and kept it from having to go to court. Without getting into too much detail, after visiting with an attorney who handled such disputes, we were fully prepared and confident that we would be able to recover $2500 in expenses, plus potential punitive damages. But, in the long run, this is just another in a long list of things to put behind us, and we're both glad it's over.

That being said, a couple of weeks beforehand I made a trip back to my home town and discovered that an old friend of mine had passed.

I started working at Taco Bell a couple of months before my 18th birthday. She worked there as a manager, for the next few years she would teach me a solid, strong work ethic and, most importantly, patience. Patience not just for my work, but for other people as well. She was a great manager, and a great friend.

She was one of the most ain't-never-done-nothing-bad-to-no-one kind of person I ever met in my life, always willing to help out -- always willing to give of herself for others. A few years later when I got laid off a job, she even brought me on board temporarily to work for her office and construction cleaning company.

I will say with absolutely certaintly that no one EVER came into contact with her without their life being touched deeply.

She was more than a manager, more than a friend, she was a mentor in life.

And it really stupifies me that people like her die, and people like my former landlord still trudge around Earth leaving nothing but swaths of destruction in their path.

I'm not saying I want her to, or think she should, die... I'm saying that the logic just seems unfair. But then again, how could we appreciate the good if we didn't have the bad.

Whatever her reasons are for being a total bitch, I don't know, and quite frankly I don't care, because nothing that ever happens to you should give you sufficient reason to make other people miserable.