Curse? or Excuse?

Before I get into the car, my mobile rang.

It was the shop supervisor. She said her mother was sick and need to be admitted.

Huh...I told the kids I wouldn't go out with them as I need to man the shop this weekend. I was upset and so as the family.

But what upset me the most was later I saw the supervisor's mother walked passed my shop. Hey, didn't the daughter call me this morning saying her mother need to be hospitalised? What an excuse, or rather a devil curse to her own mother.

Well, perhaps it is the common cultures in the "new village" for the people here to do that. They do not considered this as harmful or wrongful.