When hurt people hurt people, everybody gets hurt.

For all of my adult life I've lived in an apartment.

First in a tiny little one bedroom in Gardena.

Then into a little bit larger one bedroom in Long Beach, 3 blocks from the beach. Nice.

Then we outgrew our one bedroom & needed a two-bedroom. We stayed in Long Beach but moved further inland.

The laundry arrangement didn't work for us there, so we moved around the corner into a unit with the exact same layout only we had much better laundry accommodations.

After living there for 13 years we were abruptly informed that we had to move. No fault of our own, I think the landlord was simply ready to get us out so that he could get someone new in and charge twice the amount for rent.

So, we found ourselves on the move again and have been at our current residence for the past 5 years.
For the first 4 years I'd say that things were "ok"..."livable".
But lately, we've had a whole different element moving in and it makes things just a wee bit uncomfortable.

Early Saturday morning (around 2:30 to be exact), I heard an engine running outside of my bedroom window. I peek out and there's police car. Lovely. Then, I realize that there's another, louder engine running nearby. I go into the living room, peek out, and there's a fire truck. Fantastic. What's the drama now???

Well, it turns out that a former tenant who was apparently asked to move out recently decided that he would come back and vandalize our laundry-room for revenge. Yep! He cut hoses, busted pipes, water was EVERYWHERE! And now, the laundry room is closed for who knows how long. Doesn't bode well for me & mine...a family of 4 with laundry piling up to the ceiling.

And the thought of trudging over to a laundromat...YECKH!

So the whole incident left wondering. WHY did he do it?

I mean, really...I get that he's "P-O'd" with management, but did he REALLY have to take it out on the rest of the tenants who still live here? I never did anything to him, yet I am being inconvenienced by his anger.

Bottom line, as the title of today's post states: When hurt people hurt people, everybody gets hurt.

And where is the "win-win" for the vandal? Yeah, he may have gotten satisfaction from breaking stuff but now, he's locked up. Was it really worth it???

Let the DIALOGUE begin! Have you ever been hurt directly by someone's anger that was meant to harm someone else?

Talk to me!

Til next time...