Humanity Disappoints

This morning, as I was stepping into the shower, I heard a knock on the door. It was an aggressive, incessant knock: the kind my older brother does when he is too lazy to walk around to the garage and open the door with the key code. I was alone in the house and undressed. The front door was locked.

As I stepped out of the shower I heard a stranger’s voice. Slowly, I walked out into the hallway, dripping in a towel, to find a person I have never seen before standing at the bottom of the stairs. Lies and a confrontation ensued.

Now, this person was immature and incredibly stupid, possibly coming in third for the Most-Ignorant-Person-I-Know Award. So I decided to be merciful and tell the police officer that despite the fact this person had been hostile to me, endangered my life with a moving vehicle and committed a felony, I wasn’t going to press charges or make him file a report that would lead to an arrest.

As furious and as violated as I feel, this halfwit does not need a felony charge to ruin their future life. Although, this is another example of why the mastery of standing one’s ground versus exercising leniency evades me. Was I unreasonable? Was I not hard enough on this twit? All I can do is hope I did the right thing.