Why Can't Everyone Just Be Nice?

Yesterday, I talked to my contractor, Mark about the status, and what was coming up. All is coming along well, but we have two codes inspections coming up. He told me that we needed to be careful about this, because the inspector who went into his parents' home had said "you know, I could make you tear all this out and start over." You know what, why can't people just be nice to each other in this situation? Haven't we been through enough? Yes, the inspector could make them tear the dry-wall out, and we all know they have all the power, but why would he make them tear it out for no good reason? Maybe I'm a dreamer, as John Lennon said, but I keep expecting kindness from people, and I am not going to change my expectations. The world may never be the way I want it to be, but that's not going to stop me from expecting it to be that way! If everyone could just show a little more kindness, this difficult time would be just a tiny bit more tolerable.
The girls and I are enjoying the first night of a 10 day "stay-cation" at our sweet friends', Erin, Bill, Lindsay, and Logan's home! My parents won't know what to do without us, and I'm sure they are already quite lonely, but they'll muscle through it! :) Jennifer and her two youngest boys flew back to California tonight. Donna and James will have empty-nest syndrome, too! We've all been sharing close quarters lately! I drove Jennifer and the boys to the airport. We knew the VP was flying into Nashville "sometime late this afternoon," but we did not know what time, and I figured 5:15 qualified as early evening, not late afternoon. We got there okay, but I felt that something just wasn't right on the interstate. It was too quiet going the other way. Well, maybe that was due to the total lack of traffic. You could not leave the airport unless you took Donelson Pike. Thankfully, I have friends who talked me down from the ledge of the paralyzing terror that goes along with having absolutely NO since of direction. For future reference, if I tell you to turn left, it is in your best interest to turn right! Why no GPS, you may ask? I do have it in my car (I lack an internal compass, but I'm not stupid), but we were in mom's car because it had all the car seats in it! I'm just rambling, now. The point is, we are in our own space for 10 whole days! YAY! Don't worry, we're not far, and we can still visit Mom and Dad all the time!:)