Schadenfreude
I got back down south from visiting my parents in the Bay Area a couple of days ago. When I was there, a neighbor told me a story about a friend of hers and said she wouldn’t have believed it if she didn’t know the person personally, and I probably wouldn’t believe it if I’d heard it from someone who knew someone, who knew someone, who knew someone, etc.
So this friend of hers has a daughter who was asked to dog-sit for an older dog (16) in San Francisco. She took BART (the subway) into the city and when she got there about 4 hours after the couple left, she found the dog - dead! She tried to get in touch with the couple to no avail, but they’d left the vet’s number in case of an emergency so she called him and he said to bring the dog in and he’d take care of it.
She had no car to get the dog to the vet though. She couldn’t take a dead dog in a cab, so she found a suitcase, put the dog in that and rolled it to the subway, but was having a hard time getting it down the steps. That’s when this man saw her and offered to help her, telling her to just go ahead and he’d get the suitcase down the stairs. So she starts heading down, turns around and sees the guy running away down the street with the suitcase!
I feel so sorry for the owners. It is hard enough losing a dog without having to find out it was stolen while being transported in a suitcase. I admit some feelings of schadenfreude about the thief though. Imagine his surprise when opening the suitcase. Karma’s a bitch.
So this friend of hers has a daughter who was asked to dog-sit for an older dog (16) in San Francisco. She took BART (the subway) into the city and when she got there about 4 hours after the couple left, she found the dog - dead! She tried to get in touch with the couple to no avail, but they’d left the vet’s number in case of an emergency so she called him and he said to bring the dog in and he’d take care of it.
She had no car to get the dog to the vet though. She couldn’t take a dead dog in a cab, so she found a suitcase, put the dog in that and rolled it to the subway, but was having a hard time getting it down the steps. That’s when this man saw her and offered to help her, telling her to just go ahead and he’d get the suitcase down the stairs. So she starts heading down, turns around and sees the guy running away down the street with the suitcase!
I feel so sorry for the owners. It is hard enough losing a dog without having to find out it was stolen while being transported in a suitcase. I admit some feelings of schadenfreude about the thief though. Imagine his surprise when opening the suitcase. Karma’s a bitch.