This weekend has been a total effing nightmare but tonight was really bad.

There was a family of about 7 adults and 2 babies (one two year old and one was maybe 18 months at the oldest?) sitting on our couches in the lobby. All of the adults were drinking and a few of them were drunk. One of the older women in the group was too drunk and dropped her wine glass on the carpet and it broke. I saw her on her hands and knees trying to pick up the little shards with her hands. I saw no one else in her family was helping her or telling her to stop so I walked over with a vacuum. I told her please let me do it I don’t want you to hurt yourself. I started to plug up the vacuum but the lady got in her hands and knees again and tried to pick up all the little shards.

I didn’t want her to get all cut up because she had a skirt on. Also of course I didn’t want her to get tiny pieces of glass in her hands so again I told her please let me do it. I told her gently how I had gotten glass in my feet before when I was trying to clean glass at my house before when I was drunk and ended up having it stuck in my skin. Of course I didn’t tell her about the drunk part but I just told her about the glass in my skin. Then I noticed that the baby was walking around with only thin socks on. So I told the family can you please pick up the baby so the baby doesn’t get glass in their feet and so I can clean this mess for you.

The woman then turns to me and said in a nasty tone “yes that’s why I was trying to pick up the glass with my hands so the baby won’t step on it.”

Again here I am just trying to help people and I’m getting nastiness in return. I’m just so shocked that no one in her family was trying to prevent her from hurting herself and no one was picking up the baby so that the baby would not get hurt as well. There were three sober people there and all three of them just stared at me like I was the one being a problem.

I give up on humanity. Part of me just wanted to say eff it and leave all the glass there and let them deal with it. House woman as on her lunch break when this was happening so I couldn’t call her to do it. Which is why I was helping.