A man died yesterday - someone's father... someone's son. He was hurrying to work and going too fast on the rain-slick streets. He skidded and hit a tree, and both he and his employee were killed- immediately, I hope, but I don't know that. Families were devastated. I know because his step-daughter teaches at my school.
He was a lawyer - a high profile lawyer in the city. As such, I am sure he made people mad. Lawyers tend to because they have to do unpleasant things, and some tend to just because they aren't always pleasant people. I'm not sure which category this man fell into because he wasn't familiar to me. However, he had clearly offended some people - or some lawyer had. How do I know this?
Someone had mentioned that the article about him was on the local news website. When I clicked on it, I saw not only the photo but also comments that readers had put below the story. One had written "I wonder if they will sue the tree!" Someone else had written "No, the tree was only an innocent bystander. They will probably sue the curb."
Now these were clever comments. They would even be clever lawyer humor at another time - but not now. Not when family members are grieving. Not when those who loved him could see the comments - regardless of how you felt about the man. Not now...
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