There was a Twin Cities artist Dan Huizenga (forgive that spelling if it's wrong, probably is) that I heard in the 1980s who had a song "Just Like You" that was about making snap judgements about other people and if we take the time to understand other's motiviation, we often find out we have a lot in common. I know this isn't always the case and you will sometimes encounter people who are genuine arses, but believe it or not, most people are just people like us.

I'm reminded of a story about snap judgements derailling good intentions. A young man was running down a crowded sidewalk with a woman's purse. Seeing this, a would-be hero clotheslines the guy and then roughs him up rolling him face down on the sidewalk and putting a knee in his back to hold him down. All the time the hero is launching an obscene tyrade about how thieves are the scum of the earth and what should be done with them. Turns out the guy with the purse was a store clerk and the purse was forgotten on the counter of his store. He was running to try to catch the woman who forgot it before she got on the bus.

Kudos to you for doing what you could to make it right.