sunshine11
01-01-2008, 02:58 PM
Hello and Happy New Year!
I'm going to wait to introduce myself with details till later.
I have a question about a very good friend of mine. He's 42, (as am I) and he's married 3 yrs., and has a precious 1 and 1/2 year old. I've known him for
about 4 years. He's kind and caring and very responsible and I've never seen him mad or angry...but I'm curious about a violent incident that happened to him 3 years ago that he just revealed to me the other day.
He's a sole employee at a rental car place...he's often there late and has one mechanic that comes and goes and a boss that takes lots of vacations. So basically, he's the only one there alot of the time. One evening he was waiting for a customer to return a car and it was past closing time. He told me he got robbed while he was alone in the office. He said that two guys came in to the office and held a gun to his head and ordered him to give up all the cash...(he made a bank deposit earlier and had only a small amount in the drawer). They made him lay face down on the floor and repeatedly beat him in the head with the gun and kept asking him where the rest of the money was. This went on for 20 minutes he said, till eventually the guys fled when that customer he'd been waiting for finally arrived. This is all he's told me. I was shocked and asked him if he'd taken time off after this brutal crime and he said no, he went to work the very next day!
Now my question for you is if a person can return the next day to the work ...(this was the 2nd robbery, but the first one he wasn't attacked) is this odd to you? I mean, I told him that if this had happened to me I would have need time to recover. But apparently he just continued back to work the next day, and he even said, who else would there be to work if he didn't go?
Anyway, this is strange to me because I'm concerned for my friend.
Does this mean he'll maybe blow up one day because he's holding it all inside?
I knew him during the time of the roberry but he never told me about it.
Should I just consider him a very strong person (which he is) except that this is a horrendous thing that happened to him but he doesn't seem as affected.
What do you think?
I'm going to wait to introduce myself with details till later.
I have a question about a very good friend of mine. He's 42, (as am I) and he's married 3 yrs., and has a precious 1 and 1/2 year old. I've known him for
about 4 years. He's kind and caring and very responsible and I've never seen him mad or angry...but I'm curious about a violent incident that happened to him 3 years ago that he just revealed to me the other day.
He's a sole employee at a rental car place...he's often there late and has one mechanic that comes and goes and a boss that takes lots of vacations. So basically, he's the only one there alot of the time. One evening he was waiting for a customer to return a car and it was past closing time. He told me he got robbed while he was alone in the office. He said that two guys came in to the office and held a gun to his head and ordered him to give up all the cash...(he made a bank deposit earlier and had only a small amount in the drawer). They made him lay face down on the floor and repeatedly beat him in the head with the gun and kept asking him where the rest of the money was. This went on for 20 minutes he said, till eventually the guys fled when that customer he'd been waiting for finally arrived. This is all he's told me. I was shocked and asked him if he'd taken time off after this brutal crime and he said no, he went to work the very next day!
Now my question for you is if a person can return the next day to the work ...(this was the 2nd robbery, but the first one he wasn't attacked) is this odd to you? I mean, I told him that if this had happened to me I would have need time to recover. But apparently he just continued back to work the next day, and he even said, who else would there be to work if he didn't go?
Anyway, this is strange to me because I'm concerned for my friend.
Does this mean he'll maybe blow up one day because he's holding it all inside?
I knew him during the time of the roberry but he never told me about it.
Should I just consider him a very strong person (which he is) except that this is a horrendous thing that happened to him but he doesn't seem as affected.
What do you think?