What terrible person or rule finally made you believe in true evil.

I'm a nurse, walked into a hospice patient's room full of family fighting about

inheritances and the will of their dying relative, and one of the visitors called me back

into the room and asked me if there was any way to speed the process along. She asked if things would go faster if they put a magnet over the patient's

pacemaker in an effort to deactivate the device. She went on to explain that they were from

out of town, they'd bought tickets to a live show, and were worried about missing it. Basically,

it was taking too long for their family member to die, and it was ruining their

evening. All of this was within earshot of my super sweet patient. My blood was boiling.

I'm not a gambler, so I don't know if these are all over the place, but the only time I've ever

been in a casino, I saw a cash machine that would give you an instant second mortgage on your house.

This was in Reno in 1989 at a family reunion. I stood there looking at it and realized I was

standing in front of Evil Incarnate. Civil asset forfeiture.

25 grand was legally taken from my grandfather who has Alzheimer's but wasn't diagnosed at the time

and couldn't tell the cops why he had that much money on him. It was to buy a new truck. He'd forgotten.

The cops just took the money and left without any charges being filed. We didn't find out

until a year later when the cops sent a receipt of seizure to his house and we found it when we

were cleaning. Couldn't do anything about it

because the police department already spent the money. A company I used to work for went bust

because the owner was staying sloppy drunk and gambling all the money away. He came in one Monday

morning and told everyone to pack up their personal stuff and to just leave. I gave my notice a couple of months earlier

and actually received my vacation pay and final paycheck. Nobody else got another dime and payday

was supposed to be Wednesday for the last two weeks. I felt really bad for everyone except my

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