You ever get so pissed you literally cannot think straight for the rest of the day
So I'm chilling hanging out with my buds outside of my apartment having a good time, and my phone rings, and I answer and my mom is sobbing "YOUR SISTER IS MISSING". My mom is sort of a jokester so it takes me a minute for me to really suss out of her that she is not joking and something is definitely wrong.
Keep in mind I am stationed near Seattle, Washington and my home is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is literally a continent away from each other. Imagine my concern at this point.
So I call my grandmother (because my sisters stay with her during the school week because of my mother's working hours) and my grandmother is on her way to drive to look for her or something, I mean she's not crying or anything but she's panicking and completely incomprehensible. I call my other sister on her cell phone and her cell phone has a shitty reception or something and she's not much help either.
Long story short, my sister was okay (she took the wrong bus home, either by accident or on purpose to be rebellious or something since she's 15 and likes to do stupid shit, either way she's safe so I don't give a shit), and the crisis is averted.
However I try to deal with the situation's aftermath with my grandmother and mother, and not only is my mother completely unreachable by phone now for whatever reason (even though I just talked to her like 30 fucking minutes prior and you should keep the line open so your oldest son can contact you after you told him that his sister is missing) but my grandmother is completely fuming at my sisters irresponsibility, which is UNDERSTANDABLE TO BE ANGRY at her because yes my sister does stupid rebellious shit, I understand that, but HOLY SHIT can we focus on calming down and reassuring her TWENTY FOUR YEAR OLD VERY PROTECTIVE OLDEST BROTHER SERVING IN THE MILITARY WITH ENOUGH STRESS AS IT IS A CONTINENT AWAY that everything is okay?
Basically my mother and my grandmother are panicking and getting flustered over minor shit and I'm genuinely worried how we would manage a real crisis, say, a fire, or someone actually being hurt or someone being sick! Like I would have to deal with that shit, and yes I understand that's no one's fault, but why do I have to be the only one in my family that can see the BIG PICTURE and that can THINK AHEAD FURTHER THAN FIVE MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE
Like I had to basically get my folks to stop glossing over the fact that "Hey guys my sister did mention that her cell phone battery is old and dies all the time so heads up you should get her a new one so her phone works in case of an actual crisis"
"NO TIMOTHY SHE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN OUT LATE TO BEGIN WITH"
"HOLY SHIT I KNOW THAT BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT HER SAFETY IS PARAMOUNT NO MATTER WHAT SHE'S DOING"
GOD DAMMIT