co worker’s first day back

Today was my co worker Dontiae’s first day back at work. He seemed ok. I gave him a ride home since he had 3 boxes of stuff from people at work. He’s living with one of his sisters 5 houses down from the house that they lost. I found out that one of their dogs died in the fire because he said it was in his nephew’s room. I wanted to seriously yell at this one lady. Her name is Estelle and she has a thick hispanic accent and she kept asking him questions like how did you get out?, why didn’t your mom get out and stuff like that. I didn’t bug him with questions related to the fire and just let him talk about it if he wanted to. There was quite a few of the kids that said they were sorry which was surprising because most of them are pretty rude. My son even came through the lunch line and told him he was sorry for his loss which I found touching considering my husband came to school and I asked him if told my son to say that to my co worker and my husband said he didn’t tell him anything.

I’m just glad he’s willing to talk about the fire and seems to understand that there was nothing he could do to save his family which is sad to say but some people torture themselves with the what ifs. The family members funerals are next Thursday but unfortunately I have to work or else I would love to go. Well I guess that’s it for today.