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To feel inconvenienced by a tragic accident?

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OnemargarIta · 11/08/2025 11:36

I'm currently in Italy (staying in Rome) for three nights. It's my first foreign break in a warm country and I've been so excited and saved up especially.

We booked an excursion for today consisting of a trip to Sorrento where we'd spend time exploring, visiting shops and enjoying local food - and then on to Pompeii on the route back.

We've spent the whole morning/day so far stuck in traffic on the motor way. We are so behind schedule we can now no longer go to Sorrento first because Pompeii closes at 5.30 and there won't be time. A sit down restaurant meal will now be replaced by a takeaway which will be eaten on the coach.

We've just been told the cause of the traffic jam and it's because somebody has died in a collision on the motorway.

Instead of feeling saddened about the loss of life I just feel inconvenienced and pissed off that the highlight of my trip has been ruined.

Does this make me a shitty person? It just occurred that it might 😳

OP posts:
EvenHungrierHippo · 11/08/2025 16:54

Justchilling07 · 11/08/2025 16:48

This isn’t about being devastated, this is about a really inappropriate thread and others on here, who think it’s appropriate to then go onto posting about suicide, that it’s funny, making light of it and that it’s inconvenient to them.

Oh FFS, it’s not inappropriate. OP isn’t saying this to the family of the person that died, she’s writing on an anonymous forum. People are allowed to think of themselves and virtue signallers are far more annoying, pretending they’re truly upset about the death of strangers. They may think it’s sad, but their life carries on, yet they come here to tell others off. 🙄

Lovelysausagedogscrumpy · 11/08/2025 16:53

Justchilling07 · 11/08/2025 15:28

You have caused offence.The post you’re laughing at has been deleted.

Not my offence. My post was only deleted because it referenced a previously deleted post.

WhamBamThankU · 11/08/2025 16:52

Yes it makes you shitty and so does starting this thread about it tbf.

LemonCheesecake2025 · 11/08/2025 16:52

Justchilling07 · 11/08/2025 16:48

This isn’t about being devastated, this is about a really inappropriate thread and others on here, who think it’s appropriate to then go onto posting about suicide, that it’s funny, making light of it and that it’s inconvenient to them.

It really is an awful thread.

People who commit suicide are nearly always in a very dark place. I've heard of two cases recently where a teenager boy and also a young man with a young family had taken their own lives. I didn't know them but I felt so sad for them and their families.

Lovelysausagedogscrumpy · 11/08/2025 16:52

BondAway25 · 11/08/2025 15:15

You could have just thought it, why did you need to post it?

Because it’s relevant to the subject matter and was only deleted because it referenced a post that had been previously deleted.

Justchilling07 · 11/08/2025 16:48

EvenHungrierHippo · 11/08/2025 15:37

Not always. Sometimes when you have lost someone and you have grief vultures who didn’t know the person, talking about it a lot, saying they’re devastated, it just makes you sick. They’re not devastated, they often just want the gossip and drama.

This isn’t about being devastated, this is about a really inappropriate thread and others on here, who think it’s appropriate to then go onto posting about suicide, that it’s funny, making light of it and that it’s inconvenient to them.

ClosetBasketCase · 11/08/2025 16:45

Not unreasonble. I feel like it every damn week on the motorway i'm on. If its not some prat (usually the same one) trying to throw themselves off the motorway bridge, or walking down the motorway - on one occasion saying they'll off themselves if their girlfriend doesn't get back together with them, then its the wretched highway maintenence playing silly buggers with incident management and keeping the road shut for hours when there isnt even a fatality - and when there is? god knows they keep it shut for far longer than neccessary.

I'm totally with you. especially on a trip like that!

(No, this is not a reverse answer, no it it not satire etc - and also for referance - I have both been and had family in the bridge situation - and its actually made me even less empathetic than i was before. Now it just messes up my day and pisses me off. even more so as they usually walk past the bloody hospital to get to that thrice forsaken bridge!)

Member869894 · 11/08/2025 16:42

Yes it does.

Spookyspaghetti · 11/08/2025 16:41

JeremiahBullfrog · 11/08/2025 11:50

Was it actually a tragic accident though, or was it some twat deliberately flouting the road rules?

(I don't expect you to know, of course. But a lot of "accidents" on the road are the result of deliberately reckless behaviour.)

What it’s ’some twat’ they usually kill or injure someone else rather than themselves sadly.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 11/08/2025 16:39

Okay none of us like our plans being messed about.
However Your 3rd paragraph is quite disturbing to read. To be quite honest you’re coming over like a narcissist. Mind you a bit more compassion you'd be a narcissist!

BubblyBath178 · 11/08/2025 16:33

I’m on the fence. It’s ok to feel upset that you’re missing your trip, at the end of the day you didn’t know that person.

However, that person meant the world to someone else/multiple people and this will be an awful time for them. You can always go back if it means that much to you. That person will miss out on the rest of their life.

Hopefully, that puts it into perspective.

SonK · 11/08/2025 16:18

Well yes because it's not very nice how you talk about it in your initial post

Just remember, one day it could be your death or tragedy that people like yourself may feel "inconvenienced and pissed off" that it got in the way of their day.

No one is immune to death, always be grateful it wasn't you.

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 11/08/2025 16:10

OnemargarIta · 11/08/2025 15:41

So leave the thread, why are you re-traumatising yourself on purpose by reading along and posting repeatedly?

Goodness.
Turns out you’re not a nice person at all.

Shorkie · 11/08/2025 15:59

SilenceInside · 11/08/2025 11:44

Is it not possible to feel both things? Sadness and empathy for someone who has died, and their friends/family, whilst also recognising the frustration and annoyance that your short break has been significantly disrupted. The second shouldn't remove the first.

this!!

OneKhakiFish · 11/08/2025 15:59

You're entitled to your feelings but mine would be sadness for the life lost and the families and friends who have suddenly received horrible news.

LemonCheesecake2025 · 11/08/2025 15:58

I hope the rest of her holiday is shit.

AmateurDramatics · 11/08/2025 15:58

Letmehaveabloodyusernameplease · 11/08/2025 15:57

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
Think OP has just shown us what she really is.

Yes. A troll.

ThreePointOneFourOneFiveNine · 11/08/2025 15:57

OnemargarIta · 11/08/2025 15:41

So leave the thread, why are you re-traumatising yourself on purpose by reading along and posting repeatedly?

This is pretty nasty.

Letmehaveabloodyusernameplease · 11/08/2025 15:57

LemonCheesecake2025 · 11/08/2025 15:55

Wow

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
Think OP has just shown us what she really is.

BunnyLake · 11/08/2025 15:57

LemonCheesecake2025 · 11/08/2025 15:55

Wow

Pretty nasty response that wasn’t it!

OP I think you answered your own question of whether you’re a shitty person with that reply.

Letmehaveabloodyusernameplease · 11/08/2025 15:56

OnemargarIta · 11/08/2025 15:41

So leave the thread, why are you re-traumatising yourself on purpose by reading along and posting repeatedly?

So delete the thread.
Why did you even post it in the first place knowing thered be people on here who have been through this?
The fact that you've just coldly said that to me shows me that you do lack empathy and that, yes, you are indeed an incredibly shitty person. And a not very nice one to boot!

LemonCheesecake2025 · 11/08/2025 15:55

OnemargarIta · 11/08/2025 15:41

So leave the thread, why are you re-traumatising yourself on purpose by reading along and posting repeatedly?

Wow

ConShine · 11/08/2025 15:54

Dimdam · 11/08/2025 15:51

If you’re asking you know the answer, it’s the sort of reaction I’d expect from a sociopath! Though in this day and age of self absorption and narcissism your attitude doesn’t surmise me. Believe me I’m not one to gush over with feelings at such an event but I do have respect for the situation.

The person is dead so his or her troubles are over, but, but you’ve failed to take into consideration their relatives. The deceased could be someone’s father, mother’s brother sister, daughter, son etc you have can always book another holiday the dead person can’t.

Ive done a lot of travelling, if you travel there is always a chance things can and will go wrong, that has to be factored into your travel plans, you think the world revolves around you, well I’ve got news for you, it doesn’t. In the grand scheme of things we are nothing but pimple on the ass of life.

It's the crowing about it that's also shitty.

DiscoBob · 11/08/2025 15:54

I do feel inconvenienced when someone I care for deeply has an accident or emergency. Because it is actually going to impact my life as well as theres. I will need to do more, care more, think more about them. So it's human nature when it will change your life for a significant period of time.

Not because you missed out on one day of a fancy holiday.

Dimdam · 11/08/2025 15:51

If you’re asking you know the answer, it’s the sort of reaction I’d expect from a sociopath! Though in this day and age of self absorption and narcissism your attitude doesn’t surmise me. Believe me I’m not one to gush over with feelings at such an event but I do have respect for the situation.

The person is dead so his or her troubles are over, but, but you’ve failed to take into consideration their relatives. The deceased could be someone’s father, mother’s brother sister, daughter, son etc you have can always book another holiday the dead person can’t.

Ive done a lot of travelling, if you travel there is always a chance things can and will go wrong, that has to be factored into your travel plans, you think the world revolves around you, well I’ve got news for you, it doesn’t. In the grand scheme of things we are nothing but pimple on the ass of life.