Something in the air

There must be something in the air in Missouri, because the majority of the people I've come in contact with in the past few days have been assholes.
Fun little story about last night:
Some woman calls in about a late fee, and she's already mad. She tells me that there was a death in the family, so the Illusionist was late. I try explaining to her that we can work with her on one of them, but not the other two. She proceeds to yell at me. I hang up on her. She calls back and tells me that I have no compassion and I've never had death touch my life before. That's when I almost lost it. I wanted to say, "I've lost the one person in this entire world that I was closest to. That hole in my heart will never be healed. Not only that, but in this year, I've lost 3 people." What I said though was, "I've lost three people this year, so before you assume things about people, take a step back and think about it first because it's very rude and hurtful." She replied to that by screaming, "WELL I LOST 6 PEOPLE ON 9/11." Bull shit. Whatever. She ended up hanging up on me. Today, her asshole husband came in, cussed out my coworker, and told her he'd never come back again. Fine by us.

What else?
Oh, this guy got an MIP, and had the nerve to ask a friend of mine, who's in a band, to do a show for free so he could have the share of money my friend would have gotten. He wants my friend to drive 3 hours to a small town, play a show for free, and drive back 3 hours...so he can pay off his MIP ticket. That's absurd.

My brother is getting worse. He's so incredibly spoiled, and he only let's his hateful side show in front of me, my mom, and sometimes my aunt. He yells at us, is hateful to us, and then gets what he wants. I'm done with it. I'm just going to try not to talk to him. Maybe if he grew up like I did with almost nothing, little food, moving from one place to another, etc...instead of getting his own tv, dvds, ps2, $80 shoes, etc...he'd be different. I'm thankful for everything good that's happened recently, and I'm thankful that I no longer have to go without...but I'm thankful for the times when I did do without so I can appreciate how wonderful my life really is right now.