When Lucille Greene went to the Magnolia, Del. post office to mail holiday fruitcakes for her relatives and friends, a postal worker said “What kind of explosives do you have in here?” and shook the box. Others laughed. The humiliation and emotional anguish, she said, reduced her to tears and caused her to trip in the parking lot with consequent injury. A federal judge has dismissed her $250,000 suit, however, “because Greene had a prior eye condition, and contradictory testimony”. (“Grandmother Mails Fruitcakes, Sues USPS”, AP/ABCNews.com, Oct. 12).
Postal worker’s discourtesy didn’t cause $250K injury
When Lucille Greene went to the Magnolia, Del. post office to mail holiday fruitcakes for her relatives and friends, a postal worker said “What kind of explosives do you have in here?” and shook the box. Others laughed. The humiliation and emotional anguish, she said, reduced her to tears and caused her to trip in […]
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I tripped over my own two feet, it must be someone else’s fault! The appeals process worked, but it much have cost millions to arrive at this most appropriate conclusion.
What a weird world to live in where a lawsuit seeking a mere 6 figures seems like an act of restraint.
Oh, please. Could Americans be any more humorless than we are at this point in our existence? I regularly get accused (I write a syndicated advice/humor column) of racism or something-ism simply because I mention an observation about a person who happens to be of a certain religion or race. Note to the humorless: mere mention and actual hate are two different things.