About 15 years ago I travelled interstate to visit a friend (girl). We've been close since our Army days and have always stayed in touch.
She had married this "Yobbo" (Aussie Redneck) about 20 years ago. He's always been rude, negative and obnoxious and she just puts up with it.
Not my business but when I was visiting he made it very clear I wasn't welcome in "his" home.
(Which my friend paid for with her property settlement after she divorced her first husband)
Fast forward to today... He contacts me via Facebook. He wants to talk so I call him and he's balling his eyes out because his daughter (42) has cancer and she's close to death.
His wife (my friend) has travelled to Melbourne to support his daughter in hospital so he's stuck in NSWs on his own.
I barely know this guy and apparently I'm the only person he can think of to talk.