Even online, LISTEN to yourself! On unintentional jerk behavior

(The following happened a long while ago. I'm only just writing about it now because I wanted to let enough time elapse that the offender wouldn't recognize themselves in this post on the off chance they find it.)

An acquaintance of mine just had a horrible death in the family, a close and only sibling. It was one of those, out of the blue, taken way too soon kind of things that there are really no words for because you just feel so badly for everyone involved.

A day or two...