From Bad News Comes Good News

In an overall world perspective, I may seem like an ass, but I have to tell the story of how someone else's misery has brought me much joy. My oldest female friend in the world (and I mean just friend for you When Harry Met Sally Fans), lets call her Ms. Xamando, was dumped by the guy she lived with. Now the entire story of them dating is kind of weird. Ms. Xamando and I have been friends since I was about 12 and she 11. We've taught at three alternative schools together. After I moved away from the area, Ms. Xamando started dating and eventually living with an old student of ours. Now she never fooled around with him when she taught, he was 23 when the first went on a date.

Basically, a girl that her boyfriend had fooled around with showed up at their door and spilled the beans. Now I should be sad for her when this happens, but I'm not since she'd been cheating on this guy all along, I actually think she drove him to it. However, being the good friend, I help her through her move and suffering. At one point she asks me to drop off some items that her old boyfriend gave her at their old place. As I'm giving these useless gifts back, he tells me to hold on a minute and disappears into a back bedroom. When he appears, he's holding a 68' Harmony Archtop guitar. It's a beautiful old guitar that looks beautiful and sounds great. These were made for jazz and the blues. Since Ms. Xamando had given her ex the blues, he asked me to bring it back to her. Of course, I agreed.

When I brought it to her a crushed look ran over her body eventually leaving her with a completely defeated look on her face. "What the fuck am I going to do with that?" Ms. Xamando said. Then she remembered that I'm an aspiring guitar player with a nice collection. "Will you take this home?" she blurted while passing the guitar, "I just don't want it around reminding me of that bastard."

Of course, being a good friend I had to remove the guitar from her house, take it home, and fall in love with yet another fretboard. So, give me your opinion. Am I an ass for actually enjoying this gift?