Nobody likes a rat.
Both were out of line, of course. Nasty is as nasty does.
But this doesn't take away the humour factor. It's a crude schadenfreude. But it's humour nonetheless.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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