Does it ever appear that the entire world is stupid, except for you?

We live in the emerging world.  What exactly is the emerging world you ask?  Good question, to which the answer, the best I can figure, is the third world with internet.  If you have spent anytime time in the third world, or emerging world, you will agree that at times it is not safe to be a foreigner, especially at night.

So today, my kid was at school.  That school happens to be quite a ways away and directly across the MOST DANGEROUS city in the country from where we live.  Now my kid is no pansy, nor is he small.  He is 16 but is already head and shoulders taller than most of the adult males here (he is very big and they are very small) so I don't usually worry about him.  We even let him use the bus to get around with one rule:

He cannot walk through this city in the dark.

Like I said, the city is dangerous, and the bus stop to get to our house is in the most drug filled, prostitute laden, robbin' the foreigners part of town.  So.....no walking in the city at night.

Well today he had an event that kept him at school late.  Now, you also need to know that he goes to an expatriate school.  Everyone of his classmates is from the good ol' US of A, and the vast majority of the parents work for similar non-profits as Sommer and I.  To top it off, since we are all North Americans living in the emerging world, most of us are well off, compared to the natives, and everyone has a car which cannot be said for the local population.

Also useful for the remainder of the story is the knowledge that to arrive at our house my son needs to take 3 buses to get home.   One bus from his school to the city,  a walk several kilometers through the city to the next bus stop (remember this one, it is crucial to the next part of my rant), another bus to a town in between the city and our house, a short walk from one end of that town to the other and another bus stop, and the final bus that drops him off about a mile from our house.

Anyway, the event was over at 4:30 in the afternoon, and while still light out, by the time he would have got off the bus to walk through Murder Town it would be dark (it gets dark here between 5 and 5:30 every single freaking day of the year).  Here is the kicker, not one, NOT ONE, of these parents that are here to help the less fortunate, NOT ONE, of these parents who are supposed to be looking out for those in need, NOT ONE!!!!! offered him a ride.

I am not saying they should have driven him home because we live super far away from them, but they couldn't drop him off at his bus stop, his second bus stop, so he didn't have to walk and risk the chance of being mugged, assaulted, or worse yet killed?

Ten minutes, ten lousy minutes is all it would have taken someone, anyone to do the right thing.  Ten stupid effing (effing because I don't want to say fucking so as to keep this blog "clean") minutes.

I can't even begin to count the number of times I have given kids, and adults for that matter, a ride even farther just so they would not have to walk, let alone to keep them from harm, and these stupid jackasses who claim to be here to serve others could not even bother themselves to give this child a ride to his bus. They could not spare ten minutes.

Because they were able to save those ten minutes, I spent many more driving around looking for my son to make sure he was fine, not to mention the hour or so wondering what went wrong.  Thank God they saved themselves those ten minutes.

To those time greedy, pompous, self-serving pieces of excrement, I say, "Go [commit an act of coitus] with yourselves!" and to all of you I ask this question:

Does it ever appear that the entire world is stupid, except for you?

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