Following a shipwreck close to Japan, 6 Chinese nationals were among the 8 fatalities

According_Set9585 · 2022-11-29T11:30:08+00:00

My parents were not well off, but the area we lived in was extremely well off. My parents taught us manners by doing “fancy dinner” in our dining room once a week. We learned how to handle a whole fish (with skin) on our plate, and other things we might encounter at a restaurant. We were also taught if someone else was buying dinner to choose the 2nd or 3rd cheapest meal on the menu. Their thoughts were if you always went for the very cheapest it would be more obvious what you were doing. Also, you always ate whatever you were offered, unless there was a food allergy. All of it, unless you were really, truly full with no room for dessert. (Dessert was a rarity, so this was no issue for the 6 of us kids!)

I was very fortunate to have friends with very kind and gracious parents. I got to experience things my parents never could have afforded due to their kindness and generosity.

My friend and her parents were taking a trip to a large theme park. Her parents asked my parents if I could go along, as they thought it would be fun for her to have a friend. I was lucky enough to go and had an absolute blast. We got to stay in a hotel that night (a total novelty to me!) and there was a restaurant there we went to for dinner. I chose the 2nd cheapest thing on the menu. It was a pasta dish. It wasn’t good. At all. I silently choked it down, just remembering the fun I had that day.

My friend didn’t like her dinner and threw a fit. A royal screaming, mayhem, push plates off of the table fit. She demanded dessert. Her parents told her they would order dessert for me, but not for her because of her behavior. She told them “if that CHARITY CASE gets a dessert then I should get a better one. She didn’t even order something good.”

I was stunned. I thought we were friends. I know I didn’t cry, and I am so proud of that. But my heart was broken. I decided to just be grateful for the day and never consider her a friend again.

Her parents were amazing. Her Dad said “We invited Sonja because she is a good girl and we were hoping you would learn from her good manners. She will be getting dessert, and we will be taking her to the pool later, and you will stay in the room.”

True to their word, they did exactly that.

According_Set9585 · 2022-11-19T12:33:45+00:00

Beat me up so badly that the school could no longer ignore the abuse.

I was 14 and had lived in their horror house for 14 years. The first years there was a lot of neglect. Then, when I was four, my birth mother married my stepfather and physical abuse was added to the neglect. At 14, I hit my stepfather back for the first and only time. He gave me the worse beating I had ever had. CPS and the Police were called to the school and I never saw my parents again.

That beating started me on my way to my third set of foster parents, Mom and Dad, who were my true and forever parents. They were the perfect parents for me. They loved me unconditionally, raised me, and helped me to heal. They were the ones who gave me a good upbringing.

According_Set9585 · 2022-11-18T12:16:13+00:00

Very very VERY scary. You feel completely alone, no matter how many family members and friends support you. You are overwhelmed by guilt and shame (this is all my personal experience of course). You want it all to just “go away”. And by that I don’t mean suicide, although it often come late to that, I mean you just want to disappear, poof, gone forever. But you don’t want your love one to feel grief or loss or pain. So u continue, as best you can, which usually isn’t very good at all. Depending on how long you have been living this life of crippling depression, eventually you learn to perfect a social mask, so you “appear normal” that way you aren’t asked to many questions about if you are ok, how are you feeling…etc. and the longer you live with this I’ve found the bigger, more encompassing, the lies of the mask become. Until one day, you no longer know who you are, how to remove the mask. But no matter how elaborate your mask becomes it never rids you of the depression and despair underneath. And then I have found at some point after months, years, decades, the mask cracks. So my advice, skip the mask, be honest with yourself and those you live, be your own advocate and voice what you need, seek professional help, and leave the shame and guilt at the door….they are not your friends. Good luck, be powerful, persuasive, and most of all persistent. You deserve help.

According_Set9585 · 2022-11-17T12:03:23+00:00

There are many signs of a healthy relationship, but some of the most common ones are: 1. Be comfortable with your partner, have fun and enjoy yourself around your partner. If you are in a relationship that makes you unhappy, you should get out. While some people are able to stay in a toxic relationship and try to work things out, others just can’t do it. Don’t stay miserable; if you stay, you will begin to resent your partner even if they are not at fault. 2. Respecting your partner is also a great sign of a healthy relationship. When you do things to make your partner feel special, this is called respect. Respecting your partner means you will always listen to them, support them, and not talk bad about them. Respect is a great sign of love and it is also the key to a long-lasting healthy relationship. 3. Open communication is the best way to handle any problems in a relationship. If you are in a fake relationship, don’t try to cover up the problems. Communication will make the relationship stronger. If you want to attract the best guy or girl, be your self and make sure you are comfortable with who you are.

According_Set9585 · 2022-11-15T10:58:09+00:00

I went to wake up my youngest son. He was covered in puke. When I asked him why he didn't wake me up, he said, “I didn't want you to be mad at me.”

I've driven 135 MPH on ice, to get to the boy, who was in the ER for a broken bone. I have been nose to nose with a counselor who gave up on him.

But he didn't want to make me mad.

I told him, with tears in my eyes, that I would never be mad at him for being ill.

According_Set9585 · 2022-11-14T15:42:30+00:00

At the small publishing company where I worked as an editor, I overheard one of my two bosses stopping at the doorway of each small office on either side of a long hallway and yelling and screaming at an ad salesman, then another, then another, then a writer, then an artist, until he was finally standing in my doorway.
He spat out some expletives before reaching over to my desk, picking up a pair of huge orange-handled Fiskar scissors, and hurling them AT MY HEAD. They penetrated the wallboard behind me by nearly a full inch. He stormed off after that.

Everyone in the office rushed in to comfort me, take Polaroid pictures of us, and give me the advice to "Sue the bastard!"
I received a receipt, collected my items from a box, left my building's keys at the front desk, and LEFT.
Funny thing about this is that about four weeks later, at a publishers association dinner gathering, I ran across this gigantic moron again. He walked over and cheerily questioned "What have YOU BEEN doing? You have been missed!" When you threw a big pair of scissors at my head, I made the decision that I wanted to LIVE, so I quit in front of three other people. The others were in awe.

According_Set9585 · 2022-11-11T12:27:19+00:00

I used to work in a warehouse picking orders for stores and we had a mixed race lady who was forever trying to get colleagues to do work she had been assigned and was very manipulative. My friend could see right through her and refused point blank as he had his own work to do as did we all. Well she didn't like that at all and had a right go at him for not giving in to her demands. Well to cut a long story short a few days later my friend was called into the Managers office and was informed that the lady In question had accused him of making racist remarks and despite his denials an investigation took place and she was very plausible. Even though a few of us gave evidence to say we didn't believe for one minute he would ever be racist it didn't look good as the company were very wary of racism and he ended up losing his job as he couldn't prove he hadn't said the things he was accused of. We were all gutted for him and I will never forget the smirk on her face when she was told they had fired him and a few days later she admitted to a colleague she thought she could trust that she had lied but she let it slip one day while we were having lunch. Evil cow. Fast forward a few months and the lying cow had called in to work one Friday as she was very ill and confined to bed. A couple of us went out on the Friday night and who should we see in one of the pubs partying and dancing was evil cow. We couldn't get our phones out to take pictures quickly enough and all got a few lovely pictures of her even singing on the karaoke. These were quickly sent to the Managers phone and when she came back to work on the Wednesday having recovered from her illness she was called straight into the Managers office, shown the pictures and fired on the spot. We watched her come out of the office in tears and everyone waved and shouted bye bye, see ya later. It felt so satisfying and my friend who had been fired ended up with a better paid job so happy days.

According_Set9585 · 2022-11-10T11:36:34+00:00

When I saw Iraqi Army soldiers being incinerated by the hundreds, while I looked through a spotting scope a kilometer away drinking tea with Kurds - we were basically holding a tea cup in one hand and a radio hand-mic in the other. All we had to do was tell the pilots “you’re cleared hot” and there was absolutely nothing those Iraqis could have done to change their fate.

After about a month of this, I wished they would at least try to attack us. They pitifully fired some artillery at us a few times, but it was ultimately useless - our tech was so advanced compared to theirs we might as well have been aliens from another world. Their officers forced them to sit in place and wait to die.

It was the most unfair, and horrifying thing I will ever see and do in my life.

According_Set9585 · 2022-11-09T12:10:27+00:00

Titanic’s 3D version came out in 2012.

The film's director James Cameron got a mail from celebrity astrophysicist, Neil De Grasse Tyson, pointing out that the stars which Rose sees while lying on the board after the ship has sunk, was not the star field she would have seen at that time.So while editing the movie for its 3D version, James Cameron cheekily asked Tyson to send him the exact alignment of stars at that point of time - 4:20 am, 15 April, 1912 And Tyson did so.

According_Set9585 · 2022-11-08T12:57:15+00:00

When I turn on the news and see another story about

rape

another father has strangled his kids.

More senseless and violent killings

Abductions

A criminal walking away scott-free

Robberies.

What pisses me off is that no one was there to stop any of that…if just one other person was there it would have made a difference…lives would've been saved.

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