Why are some people so horrible to others? Why do they feel the need to take out their own frustrations and anger on other people. I know we all sometimes get irritated and snap at someone, saying someone we might regret later, but that is normally a heat of the moment thing whereas I am talking about calculated nastiness.
One of our group left us in Quito and was going on to Brazil on her own. Se had her flight booked but needed to get a visa from the Brazilian embassy when she got to Quito. This should normally be able to be done on the same or next day. Unless of course the woman at the embassy happens to have a son who happens to have had to wait for his visa to get into your country.
Her view was that your country made my son wait for a visa so, even though it has nothing whatsoever to do with you, I am going to make you wait. She has been told she has to wait eight days to get the visa, which means she will have to change her flights and travel plans.
Now I know that visas are never guaranteed, and that delays are sometimes inevitable, but that isn't what is happening here. This is some woman abusing her authority because she is unhappy about what happened to her son, taking it out on a person just because she comes from the same country. Of course I would love to be able to say that this is just South America, but sadly, while this kind of thing may be more prominent here, I know that it can happen in the UK too. It shouldn't.
She is going back to try to reason with the woman again; I hope that the woman sees that she is being unreasonable and does the decent thing.
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