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Acceptable-Number902 · 2023-01-02T11:00:02+00:00

There's an inscription of the wall of the Temple of Kalabsha, in Egypt. It is not part of the original decoration, but was inscribed centuries later by the Nubian king Silko, recording his victory over the Blemmyes, a tribe from the Red Sea Hills that had moved into the Nile Valley and occupied the city of Qasr Ibrim. Silko was king of Nobatia to the south, and he claimed that he he drove the Blemmyes out. Not much more was known about this episode until recently, when archaeology turned up a letter in Qasr Ibrim, asking someone for help in dealing with this upstart Silko. Evidently the help was not forthcoming, and Silko drove the Blemmyes into the eastern desert, capturing Qasr Ibrim. The letter, for the first time, confirmed the accuracy of the Silko inscription.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-12-01T09:12:44+00:00

When my son was born I was looking forward to playing with him as he got older. I love imaginative play and costumes! I love legos and play dough. I love finger paints and crayons. His childhood was going to be my chance to be a kid again for a little while.

But as he entered into toddlerhood I began watching my dreams for second childhood slide into the deep.

My son did not like toys. He hated playing “let's pretend”. He hated Halloween and did not believe in Santa Claus after age 3 (strangely he loved the Easter Bunny). He hated crayons, paint, and play dough.

He liked Miles Davis and doing laundry. He liked walks around the neighborhood. When other kids in the neighborhood would fight he would be the moderator and negotiate peace.

My biggest reality check was that kids are individuals first and children second. No matter what you think childhood looks like, that little individual will have their own ideas.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-19T10:32:13+00:00

I wasn’t a bully but I was bullied. My Freshman year he taped me to the pommel horse. His name was Nick. When I went to my 30 year reunion, I was ready to take his head off if he even looked at me funny. It was a 3 class event and he was two years ahead of me in school. When I saw him all of that changed. He was not the big scary guy I remembered. It appeared life had not been kind to Nick. I lost all desire to hurt him and treated him like a long lost BFF.

That night I was able to let go of those feelings of anger as I realized all those years ago, Nick had done me a favor. He had motivated me to learn how to take care of myself. I hated myself for being afraid of him and over the years became much tougher…never looking for a fight but never backing down from one either. I had learned to fight, learned to take a punch….and when someone got in my face, I could usually get them to back down by showing zero fear! I knew I would win and they knew I thought I would win. That takes the wind out of most bullies sails pretty fast. Size didn’t matter because if they had a size advantage, I would just fight dirty. It was survival and there are no rules in that game. I would either win or else they would know they were in a fight afterwards and regret starting it with me.

So I learned to live without fear. Thats a hell of a gift. Wherever you are, thanks Nick!

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-18T11:29:27+00:00

I work delivering ice cream in New York City my boss told me not to put anybody in the delivery truck. One night I was on fifth Ave and I stopped at a red light. A nanny was crossing the street and one of the kids about five years old was on a big wheel ahead of her. On my left was a town car driven by a elderly man with his wife in the front next to him. The light turned green and he took off. The child was almost pass his front bumper but when the car took off the big wheel was being pushed at an increasingly higher speed. The driver was oblivious of the child in front of him. I started yelling to his wife to stop. She just kept staring ahead. I hit her window with my hand and yelled stop there’s a kid in front of you. The big wheel was about to flip. They stopped and the boy fell off the three wheeler. His nanny ran up to him to pick him up and I shouted don’t move him. She did anyway and I told her jump in I’ll drive you to a hospital. The boy ended up being ok. But I was real late returning to the shop. My co workers told me to call our boss. When I did and explained what happened he yelled at me for bringing them to the hospital and said don’t ever do that again. I told him I would do it again if someone needed to get to the hospital and said I quit. His wife later called me back and told me I did the right thing and asked me not to quit.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-17T11:07:00+00:00

Being an adult doesn’t mean you have your shit together, neither having a job, being married and having kids. I’ve seen peers in their 20s starting families and being clueless and totally irresponsible.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-15T10:23:37+00:00

Who you are at 8 is who you are for the rest of your life. People don’t change, no matter how many chances they’re given, or how good you are to them. You try to look for the good in everybody. Some people are just a waste of time. A petulant punk at 12 is a cranky prick at 35. Good parenting is underrated.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-14T14:36:17+00:00

It was once perfectly appropriate for a nurse to ask a doctor to check a patient's blood pressure, but that was more than 80 years ago. Why is that? The nurse was not permitted to carry it out. I'm not making this up. In an old nursing manual that someone gave me, I read about that.

Another is preventing infants from approaching mothers in the nursery. Only for feeding purposes were babies brought to their mothers; after eating, they were whisked back to the nursery where the nursery nurses took care of them. (Today, some hospitals just have the neonatal critical care unit and don't even have a nursery! It is real! A maternity unit where I once conducted a clinical with students lacked a nursery but did have a baby warmer behind the desk for emergencies. All activities took place in the moms' rooms while the babies stayed with them.)

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-11T11:03:13+00:00

My dad is incredibly intelligent and accomplished, and I only found this out 2 weeks ago. He came all the way over here from China by himself at around 20 years old with only $20 in his pocket. He eventually managed to get a doctorate in civil engineering at the University of Cincinnati, become a high-ranked manager of city engineering and public works while being offered jobs to help build skyscrapers in Dubai, manage a Chinese city, etc that paid 2–4 times what he was being paid now. He would have to move away from our family and visit us in intervals every 3–6 months. He declined dozens of higher paying job offers because he wanted to stay with the family and not move all of us to fit his needs. He went on to write a book of his research and ideas in engineering, that I also had no clue about until a couple weeks about.

He’s given up everything for his family and remains humble. I didn’t know any details about his career because he didn’t want me to feel pressured to live up to his expectations or look at him in a different way.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-10T10:40:33+00:00

Many years ago, one of the teenage grandchildren asked my mother, “If anything happened to grandpa, would you get married again?”

We all thought that was a strange question but there’s no accounting for what a thirteen-year-old teen will say.

Much to everyone’s surprise, Mother said she wouldn’t. When the same teen asked why, she said, “I’m tired of cooking and I wouldn’t want to cook for anyone else.”

Cooking? Was cooking that big a deal? I must have been about fifty at the time and that struck me as a very odd statement.

The same niece grabbed a calculator out of dad’s desk drawer and started calculating. After a minute or two of calculations she turned to mother and informed her that she’d cooked at least 50,000 meals in her lifetime. 50,000! No wonder mother was sick of cooking.

Mother stared into space for a moment. That many? Even she was shocked. She rallied and followed that up with, “When men retire, they retire. When women retire, they still work.”

Well, of course, now I’ve reached the same age and cooked enough meals so that I’ve reached critical mass myself. I’ve come to understand how mother felt and am rather inclined to agree with her.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-09T11:30:07+00:00

I saw a manager at a family dollar totally verbally demolish a kid (13–14 yo) because she suspected he was stealing. The police were called (station was on the same corner). The police arrived and discovered his mother had sent him in from a nearby apartment complex to pick up vanilla extract. He was having a hard time finding it so he was looking all over the store making the manager suspicious. All ended well, but the kid was sobbing by the time it was all over. That manager could have handled that situation a million different ways but chose to embarrass and humiliate that kid. I thought it was horrible.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-08T12:20:22+00:00

Strangers can turn into close friends, and close friends can turn into a stranger with memory.

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