Dear God this has been a helluva week.
My mom got her 4th DUI and is now probably gonna face jail-time. She's worried she won't be able to pay her rent and will lose her house and I have a handicapped brother she takes care of. I can take care of my brother, but I can't help her on her rent.
Then I found out my dad has stage 4 cancer and they have no idea what his timeframe is.
Before I tell the next part of my week, I have to explain something to put it into perspective:
At my work I help disabled clients with getting jobs, and keeping their jobs. Well at one of my clients work-locations there was a guy from a rival sign-waving company that would threaten and ridicule my DISABLED clients to point they were bawling and afraid to go to work. So I went out there, told him if he ever threatened any of my clients again I'd put the fear of God into him, and then had my work call his work and had him removed from the premise.
So flash-forward to yesterday and I'm in the local used movie/game shop right after my dad tells me about his cancer. I'm there to get a Sega Genesis game we used to play together all the time called Star Control. This same guy I just told you about with the clients walks into the store. I didn't recognize him at first. But he recognized me. I'm standing at the counter waiting to be helped, and the lady is in the back for whatever reason. He says, "Hey, you're Nathan --- (not giving last name on the internet) aren't you? I was like, "Yeah, what's up?" And he just starts staring me down. And then I recognize him. And I'm like, "Hey, you're that creep that threatened my clients." As he continues to stare me down he's like, "Yeah, what are you gonna do about it?" I had no intention of getting into a fight, since it was all over now, so I just say, "Yeah, you're real bad ass threatening handicapped people." And just stand there and wait longer at the counter, but I'm not dumb enough to take my eyes off him at this point. Then he names my wife by name, and tells me she's real pretty. I have no idea how he knows my wife's name, or my name for that matter. My wife is also pregnant. And after what I learned about my dad, today wasn't the day. I snapped. We got into out front (as I launched him out the door, lol). The owner started calling the cops. He got away as fast as he could and jumped in his car and left. I stayed and apologized to the lady (because this normally isn't like me). She told the cops nevermind. Since I was regular she asked what the hell happened, and still checked me out, though. After that, I bought my wife a tazer.
So by the end of the week my mom is going to jail, my dad is dying, and I got into a brawl and probably can't go back to one of my favorite stores ever again. And now I have to worry about the safety of my pregnant wife. Damn.
