01/10/25 - Super mean-looking middle-aged man never order yam boba milk tea.
“How come delivery drivers know I’m a girl?? He knocked on my door a couple of times and yelled, “Girl, come get your food.” And I was just blown away. Did the concierge tell him? How can you tell?” [Attached is a screenshot of a takeout order of a mango coconut jelly bowl (extra coconut) and some wings.]
Comments say, “Men: pig trotter rice, chicken rice, saucy rice, noodles, fried noodles, fried rice.”
“After working hard all day, gangster Wang comes home to order himself a bowl of mango coconut jelly (extra coconut).”
“Meanwhile, a hot girl just ordered five bags of betel nuts and two sets of poker cards.”
“Because you like sweets. You should change your name to sound like you really love your wife, like, “Wife and Three Kids”.”
“What, do guys not like sweets? Not even boba tea or cake or ice cream? Men just don’t like sweet things?”
“Not really. And your name is kinda feminine too.” [The name OP used was 文大, which doesn’t look at all feminine to me, for what it’s worth. Maybe it’s a regional thing.]
“I’m bringing my badass primary schooler internet addict front page to all these threats. It’s pretty normal that a primary schooler orders boba tea while videogaming and doesn’t want to pick up his phone or answer the door, right?” [For context, in order to stay safe, a lot of girls don’t like delivery drivers finding out they live alone, so they try to set their username/avatar to look like something a man might choose.]
“99% of people who buy this type of fruit+coconut milk desserts are girls. I’ve never seen a guy eat this.”
“If you buy an extra-large pig trotter meal though, they’d definitely assume you were a guy.”
“AAA Furniture Wang Yongqiang [王永强, definitely a super masculine name] orders a diet yogurt fruit mix + strawberry smoothie in the middle of the night.” [A lot of people who use wechat to market their business start their user name with AAA, because your contact list is listed in alphabetical order, so it’ll put them at the top of everyone’s contact list.]
“If your name has AAA, even if you ordered fried rice, they’d assume you were a girl around uni age. Delivery drivers hang out on the internet too, and it’s not like delivery apps list anything by alphabetical order. Who would go out of their way to name themselves AAA with a middle-aged man avatar?” [A lot of life hack posts go around advising girls to change their name and avatar to something that sounds middle-aged, middle-class man-ish, because it makes people treat you with a lot more respect on the internet and resolves conflicts with customer service a lot faster.]
“This is what a man’s avatar and username looks like.” [Screenshot showing the default empty avatar image with a default generated username which is just a string of random letters and numbers.”
“Yeah, that’s exactly what mine looks like.”
“Based on my many years of experience at Meituan [one of the two big food delivery companies], men never bother to change their avatar and username and just use the default ones. Only girls bother to change their avatar to a super mean-looking middle-aged man.”
“And super mean-looking middle-aged man never order yam boba milk tea.”
“This is what I’m using! I feel like the obviously middle-aged man ones don’t look that realistic, and I’ve seen people advise using a football star as your avatar!! An English username plus professional athlete avatar! Even if you don’t seem like a middle-aged man, at least you’d be a fit guy who works out, right?”
“Just use the default avatar plus default name, whatever the system gives you. I have a bro who can’t even be bothered to add new addresses to his account. Who would bother to change their avatar and ID?”
“I’m really glad I didn’t yell at her this morning.
After breakfast this morning, I finished cleaning the plates in the kitchen, and when I came out, I found her kneeling on the floor, zoning out at the TV.
It was already 7:25. Fury immediately filled my heart.
I was furious why she had no concept of time.
Does she not know she’s almost late for school?
She’s already in 3rd grade. She doesn’t know to go to the bathroom, pack her bag, straighten her clothes, and then head out the door after breakfast? Why does she need an adult to remind her to do everything?
Countless reasons why she’s a bad kid filled my heart and I wanted to accuse her, but I held myself back.
Two minutes passed. Literally just two minutes.
And then she quickly stood up, went to the bathroom, filled her water bottle, put on her clothes, tied her tie, and ran to the elevator and pressed the down button.
The whole process was so smooth, no trace of hesitation, and she’s already yelling at me in front of the elevator, “Mommy, hurry up! We’re not gonna make the elevator…”
That moment, all the accusations in my heart evaporated.
I’m so glad I didn’t yell at her.
I’m so glad I gave her a precious two minutes out of our busy morning to just let herself go and zone out.
I’m even more glad that my kid knows exactly what she’s supposed to be doing.
I guess it’s not a bad idea to not yell at your kids so much and let them slowly grow on their own…”
Top comment is from OP, “OMG, I did not expect this post to blow up. I guess it’s finally my turn at 15 minutes of fame. Read everyone’s comments, and I’m really learning how important it is to give kids time to blank out. Sometimes, we need to learn to trust our kids and respect their rhythm. I’m seeing a lot of friends here say I’m a good mom, which makes me feel guilty, because I screw up all the time in daily life. I get anxious, I have a temper, but my kid is like an angel, and she’s always tolerating and forgiving me. A lot of times, as parents, we can learn a lot from our kids. I’m not a good mom, but I’m going to continue working hard to become a good mom. Let’s all work together, moms!”
“You are a good mom. You figured this out on your own when my mom only learned after I talked to her during college.”
“You can’t go wrong having more patience and more love.”
“Good mom! Some kids have a rebellious streak. Maybe she’s already planned all her time out and she’s just waiting for the right time. Once it’s time, she’ll do it. But if an adult tells her to go do something or gets mad at her, then she goes from proactively wanting to do something to passively being forced into it. And if it goes on, the kid will become more and more rebellious and procrastinated.”
“Yeah, you’re absolutely right, because this is how I am.”
“Hugs. I didn’t yell at my kid today either, even though she brought bad terrible grades again.”
“I didn’t yell today either, even though he pulled an all nighter gaming and didn’t get up for school this morning.”
“As someone born after 2005, I really think that yelling and hitting isn’t an effective form of education. I’ve never been beaten by my parents growing up. They’ll only raise their voice at me when they’re really panicked. So I never had a rebellious phase. And I love communicating with my parents a lot more than my peers. I tell my parents everything, including all kinds of gossip at school and my own relationship status.”
“+1, born in 1997, forget yelling or hitting, I can’t even remember my mom ever getting angry or raising her voice at me, so I never had a rebellious phase either. And ever since I can remember, I’ve loved sharing school and work drama with my mom. Whenever my mom’s friends or relatives ask her how she deals with puberty rebelliousness, she just gets embarrassed and goes, “I don’t know…my daughter never had that phase…””
“Kids have their own rhythm.”
“I’m relieved to see kids these days have parents who understand. It’s a lot better than back when we were kids.”
“My daughter acts like she’s been paused in the morning. If I look at her, she’s putting on her clothes, but as soon as I leave, she pauses and just lies there.”
“It’s the same way when we’re doing homework too XD”
“This blogger really touched me. For a while, my dad took my kid to school, and from the moment he gets up to when he heads out the door, my dad is constantly hurrying him along and rushing him. It got to the point where my kid was getting traumatised by my dad. I told him that it takes people a while to get along when they first wake up anyways. So long as he’s still within his time window, then don’t rush him, or else he’s just gonna take even longer.”
“My kid’s in daycare. I never yell at her. I just tell her that I’m not gonna be the one who’s late. She’s rushing me every morning and she’ll cry if I drag my feet for too long.”
Another compilation of medical stories:
“ER sent someone up to get their stomach pumped. Apparently, this girl accidentally ate a cockroach and was worried it would stay alive in her stomach, so she drank half a bottle of pesticide as insurance.”
“What extreme distrust in her stomach acid and yet absolute trust in her survivability.”
“Stomach acid: Sister, listen to me, I can kill it. I can really kill it. Stop pouring that shit in, please T_T”
“After getting her stomach pumped, it’s going to damage her stomach lining, so the doctor is going to have to prescribe her medicine to restore her stomach lining, where the primary active ingredient is cockroaches.”
“The only active ingredient in Kangfu Xinye [literally new restorative fluid, not sure if this is a real medicine with just a brilliantly translated name] is cockroaches.”
“I started chewing on betel nuts from 4:30AM and accidentally mistook a cockroach for a betel nut. Whatever, cockroaches are a type of nut too.” [“cockroach” and “betel nut” rhymes in Chinese.]
“Stomach acid: Why do you look down on my so much?”
“I had a student who got scratched on the hand by a stray cat. Came to my office bleeding all over the place. I asked him, “The class leader just came and told me it was just a scratch?” And he said he wanted to squeeze the contaminated blood out, but the scratch was too shallow and wouldn’t bleed, so he took a box cutter and opened it up more XD”
“In second grade, I got stung by a wasp on the butt. Didn’t tell my parents and just deal with it for three years until I felt something weird on my butt. Pulled it out and it turned out to be a wasp needle.”
“When I was little, a whole bunch of ants had gotten on my fry bread. It was dark and I didn’t open the lights before I started eating. When my mom got home and opened the lights, there were still two crawling ants on the remaining piece of fry break. I had to eat 6 digestive pills with tears in my eyes.”
“We had a guy who ate so many chameleons that he had heart failure come to the hospital. You have no idea how horrified I was to hear that as a new nurse that’s been working for less than a year.”
“Mean to the cockroach, even meaner to yourself.”
“My mom is worse. She just finished spraying the cucumbers in the morning, and picked them off to make salad with by lunch. I ate a few bites and immediately wanted to throw up, and she didn’t feel a thing at all. Under repeated questioning, she insisted that it kills pests not people. Who knows this feel T_T”
“I swallowed two coins when I was little and never told my parents. It’s been over 20 years now.”
“Doctor, I’ve thrown up eight times in two hours. There’s blood in my vomit. My teacher says it’s because my stomach got too cold, but I can keep going. Do you think she’s right?”
“My dad was eating fruit and wasn’t sure if he accidentally ate a worm or not, so he boiled a pot of water and drank a big glass to boil it to death.”
“I ate two batteries and didn’t tell my parents cause they’d yell at me. Two years later, I gathered up the courage to tell my friend, and they thought I was bragging.”
“When I was little, I was playing with a pebble in my mouth while lying down, and my brother say and was like, “Careful you don’t swallow that.” And just as I opened my mouth to snark back at him, I accidentally swallowed it. My mom had to poke around in my shit every day until it finally came out.”
“The problems China is facing right now:
Birth rate is too low, almost the lowest in the world.
Because birth rate is too low, it causes the ageing population problem to get much worse, which causes the social security fund to run dry.
An over supply of housing has caused real estate prices to continue to fall. As the biggest asset most people own, when real estate values fall, people’s wealth shrink and it obviously hurts, and thus people don’t dare to spend too much money.
Over production plus not enough consumption means that nobody wants to borrow money, causing deflation.
From the point of view of modern day economics, all of these problems are extremely severe and almost unsolvable.
But if you time travelled into the past and told people decades ago about China’s problems right now, they’d be super confused:
“What you’re telling me is that in the future, China is going to produce so much stuff that nobody can use it all, build so many houses that people can’t fill them all, and everything is super cheap, and there’s less and less people to fight with you over opportunities?”
“Haven’t we won then?””
Comments say, “Stuff might be cheap, but houses are still expensive.”
“You’re just not mentioning that nobody has any money, huh? XD”
“It means that our economic basis right now is precisely suited to the economic structure we had decades ago.”
The fact that boba tea is considered just as girly as it is here in the US is hilarious to me