More Experience, Bad Experience

This past weekend I racked up 41,000 experience points. Starting Friday afternoon at level 67 with 8,000/29,000 EXP and ending 10 P.M. Sunday night at level 68 with 20,000/30,500. I did this with 2 parties each day. Some good, some awesome, and then there was the worst.

Good EXP But I Still Gotta Go
It all started with a Sunday afternoon invite. There was a member in the party that I have had bad experiences in the past with. I don't know them very well but from what I have seen it isn't very hard to tell they are uber-impatient with a total lack of respect for anyones opinion but their own. I will spare you the details of the past but I can assure you more selfish and rude behavior would be a hard find on Shiva.

Bibiki Bay was our destination. We had a balanced party with the three major types of mages and capable melee. We then went to work fighting Catoblepas (a large beast from the Dahmel Family.) Everything went great for a couple of hours. Then I screwed up. The tank had been killed in the fight before by a another Catoblepas that lumbered by and linked on us. For some reason my attention was taken away from the game. When I glanced back I thought we had begun to fight again so I started my Shock, Burn, Rasp routine. I do this every fight on mobs with high resistance to magic so that my bombs are more effective. This time I started way too soon. The tank was still weakened! What a dumb mistake.
Now everyone is taking major damage. The Red Mage and I are throwing Sleep II's and Sleepga II's at it but are getting resisted. Then the White Mage frantically yells out, "Corn come here! We are teleporting!"
We all live. It was damn close but we lived! The whole ordeal was bad and was made even worse by the verbal assault coming from the assholio in the party. I apologized profusely for my blunder but after three or four apologies the name calling and anger being directed at me kept coming accompanied by other party members telling the assholio to calm down. The requests being unheeded the insults kept flying at me. I admitted it was a retarded mistake and apologized. What else could I do at this point. We all made it out alive. Even if we did die. Big deal. Shit happens.
At this point I felt I should take this opportinity to leave. I said, "You are right. I think I am too tired right now."
I disbanded and warped back to Jueno from the Crag of Mea. I put back up my flag and then got a tell from two of the party members, "You are seeking again?"
My reply was, "I am too tired to play without exploding on that motherfucker running his mouth. Sorry."
The replys both came back explaining Assholio can be harsh. To which I replied, "He has the right to play as he wishes but I have the right to play in a party I enjoy, out." That was the end of that.
Its parties like this that make me glad I have found so many great buddies in Vana'diel because there are truly some A+ assholes out there. Beware!