"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> On 7/2/2016 10:07 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> The thing is... Stuff like this is happening all around us but we don't
>> necessarily know who these people are. Yeah, we might hear about some
>> accident on the news or on Facebook or whatever. But we might not
>> connect the person to the business.
>
> Sadly there is a lot of it. often starts even before drinking age. Some
> never learn and repeat often. Others do.
>
> We have an employee that killed a girl driving drunk. He spent a couple
> of years in jail and probation for more. He no longer drives. He works
> for us full time and a couple of years ago took a second job so he could
> put two daughters through college. His past mistake aside, he has been a
> model citizen. If he was denied a living, other people would have
> suffered more than they did.
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>> My parents were friends with restaurant owners. They divorced. Although
>> my parents loved the restaurant, they felt they could not go there
>> because it would be like showing favoritism to the person who wound up
>> with the place in the divorce settlement. And as it turned out, they
>> ended up sort of not being friends with either person any more for that
>> reason as well.
>
> Divorce can make awkward situations. It is also common to like one spouse
> more than the other. Real friends can still remain friends. Evidently
> these were more in the acquaintance category.

Quite likely. My brother and I tried to have a 50th anniversary party for
them but they said not to bother as they really had no friends. The people
they had considered friends over the years were restaurant owners, wait
staff, Drs. dentists, people like that. Although I can be friendly with
those people, I don't consider them to be my friends.