OK. I'll post why i am writing this up later, because if i write it now it'll skew the result.... but for now all you get are the facts. No elaboration, no justification. And all i want is your opinion. Even though i am setting myself up as a compelete bastard. So was i wrong when i did this:
On delivery the other day at 9am, i enter a road about to deliver mail to that road. A man stands up from a doorway i am about to deliver to, and is obviously, from his appearance and demeanour a habitual drunk. He mumbles "poshhhhtmannn".. and stumbles off up an alleyway to urinate.
On the step he has left a can of Carlsberg Special Brew. And i could step around it, but i don't, i kick it out of my way. And the entire contents empty onto the steps. He returns, i am delivering on the other side of the road, and see him examine the can. He is distraught.
He says,"did you knock the can over?"
i said "yes".
He wants a replacement.
i say "Fuck Off"...and flick him a V-sign.
And on i go with my delivery.
Was it wrong?
would this be the morning of the great hangover?
erm............................. lets see i think that there was no need for kicking the can really! was there?? i dont know if it was me id of just walked around it as im not one for hassle!
louxxx
Postie,
I can see through you, and see that you were in fact doing this guy a big favour.
You knew that he had had enough alcohol, and needed no more, and you also knew that you were doing his liver a favour.
Therefore well done for your good samaritan(ness) and saving the bloke from himself.
Or else you were just being a really nasty b*stard - ha ha ha, I wish I'd have done it myself. The look on his face was probably classic !!!!!!
Being a postie myself.....i am normally in good mood...so long as people on my delivery leave me alone to get on with the job instead of pestering me for their post....so if i had done something like what you did it would only have been if one of my customers had been rude to me to piss me off that much other than that i would have left it alone!.....so come on then what pissed you off before that happened?
OK. to stop this dragging on any longer than needs be...
Here's my explanation, justification, call it what you will. It may not make sense, I will just write this as it comes out. So...
As everyone knows, i am a drinker, and don't have any problem with people being drunk. BUT there is a time and a place for it. And this fella was waaaay over being drunk. It's an illness, and if you saw someone standing on a bridge, threatening to jump, would you walk on by? Or would you shout "Jump".
I kicked the can over with two main thoughts in my mind, and i did actually stand there while he was down the alleyway have a pee, thinking this over. One was the above, he's a drunk and needs no more booze, especially at 9am in the morning, because it'll be at least an hour before he can get another can. The other thought was purely malicious, and that is what i have been mulling over....
Why should someone be able to sit around, getting arseholed, and being a complete waste of space to society at large...while most people say, or do nothing about it. who pays for this drink? You and I do, indirectly, and therefore, in my opinion, if he feels able to crash out on other peoples doorsteps, to piss in their alleyways, to drink at 9am in a public place, then sorry, but sometimes you get your beer spilled.
He asked me to replace the beer i had kicked over, but in my opinion, i had already bought him that beer... so thats why i replied as i did.
And, just in case anyone thinks i was picking on him, he was far larger than me, he was drunk, and it did end up getting quite nasty in the street... and i told him most of the above to his face.
Anyhows... i am off out for the night... i may return drunk....
Oh....and i really have been mulling over the morality of it, since it happened, still not sure if it was right or not. As others have said, i maybe should have just left it alone. But, not since i was 17 or 18 have i done anything so morallly dubious... so thats why i asked it "out loud" ...
Thanks for the replies everyone....
Kicking one can over isnt going to cure an alcoholic, shopping one dole fiddler isnt going to stop benfit fraud.
But, hey, its a start!!!
I like your taste in music smokerjim.
On the above issue, it doesnt matter whether it was right or wrong anymore.
you just did it and now its done.
Its no good thinking on what you did and wasting your time worrying about it.
Life is too short to worry. it was a can or beer not the crown jewels or something.
dont worry be happy every little thing is going to be alright
lisamarie