by sumac | Jul 21, 2014 | Youth apologizes
This happened at a women’s restroom at a highway gas station in Utah. Three stalls. Our protagonist, thinking the handicapped stall is empty, opens the door. It is not empty. “Oh! I’m so sorry!” says our protagonist and closes the door instantly....
by sumac | Jul 16, 2014 | Institutional Apologies
It’s no fun having to visit your kid in jail. It’s even less fun when instead of seeing him, you get locked into a steel-doored concrete room and forgotten. Farad Polk had been visiting his son, who’s awaiting trial (drugs), every Saturday at...
by sumac | Jul 14, 2014 | Political Apologies
John Huppenthal is Superintendent of Public Instruction in Arizona. “Schools chief” in headlinese. He’s an ambitious, presentable chap who worked his way from local office to state office. Turns out he’s been posting on blogs as Falcon9, Socrates,...
by sumac | Jul 5, 2014 | True Crime Apologies
Dissatisfied with some aspect of the service he was receiving from Verizon, a tempestuous Connecticut man declared he would go to their Glastonbury store and shoot everyone there. Ugly customer. The Verizon workers at the store didn’t like this plan. They called...
by sumac | Jun 13, 2014 | Apology Essentials, Political Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
Jean Quan, mayor of Oakland, California, keeps being forced to have difficult conversations about using her cell phone while driving. Or not. Most recently, Quan’s car was involved in a fender-bender. The other driver said Quan, talking on a cell phone, ran a...