“I always thought human traffickers were just something on the news, that all the videos on tiktok of people grabbing kids were just fake. Never thought this would happen to me.
I was playing with my daughter outside tonight. She was playing in the lobby with her roller skates. I was sitting around, watching her. A middle-aged man walked past my daughter and grabbed her by the hand. I thought he was worried about her falling and was helping stabilise her. My daughter is super socially awkward, so she pulled her hand back.
He got closer and grabbed her hand again and pinched her cheeks, and then went to pick her up. I saw my daughter stiffen up, since she never lets any man except her dad hold her. So I walked over and told him, “Let her play by herself,” while my daughter hugged me in fear.
And the guy had the balls to walk towards me and ask me what I was talking about. He said he was her dad. I was just so confused. I turned my daughter’s face towards him and told him to get a proper look, and not only did he not back down, but he got even more in my face. I could smell the alcohol on him, so he must’ve been drunk. He pushed me and tried to grab my daughter again.
I was five months pregnant, and I remembered that my husband’s brother was also in the lobby, so I started yelling for him. I was feeling my tummy tighten. It was too loud, though, so he didn’t hear me. I called him on my phone and he came over, and when the guy saw my BIL was much bigger than him (100kg in weight), he immediately went, “Sorry, bro, got the wrong person,” and then yelled in another direction, and a woman with a girl about the same age as mine walked out.
I’m still scared and uneasy now. People have got to keep their eyes open. You can’t be playing on your phone while your kiddo’s playing.”
Comments say, “That second to last paragraph scares me. You think the other kid was abducted too, and not the woman’s actual child?”
“You can tell they’re real practiced. If someone comes over, they can say it was all a misunderstanding, and they’ve got accomplices on stand by to back them up. He’s looking for a girl, so he brought a girl as cover. You gotta call the police.”
“Why are you writing this instead of calling the cops?”
A compilation of answers to the question, “Why do some parents freak out so much about 20-30K in tuition?”
“You think of 20-30K as working hard for 2-3 months and then getting paid 20-30K.
But in actuality, 20-30K means that every month, your mom and dad make a combined 15K, and then pay 5K in mortgage, 2K in groceries, 500 in utilities, and give you 2K in spending money. If there are any family events, that’s another 500. And they save up the remaining 5000 for 4-6 months before they get 20-30K.
I’m sure your parents once thought 20-30K was just small change too. But ever since they had you, they’ve learned quick how hard it is to save up money.”
“Why do some kids have no income at all but don’t think 20-30K is a big deal?”
“You’ll know the answer to this question once you understand that making 20K a month doesn’t just mean making double of 10K a month. By the way, I only call the money that actually shows up in your bank account at the end of the month as your “salary.””
Question: “Are people’s imaginations really limited by what they’ve seen before?”
Answer: “Nolan filmed Oppenheimer, and he thinks the height of oppression is being forbidden from entering the Pentagon.
Todd Philipps made Joker, and thinks that a bottom-class mentally ill person like Arthur has to have a free psychologist to help him.
JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter and thinks the worst thing parents can do to their kids is make them sleep in a closet under the stairs.
George Orwell wrote 1984, and to emphasise how few resources there were, he made a point to write that even chocolate was rationed.”
Comments say, “There was a obscure movie where aliens ruled the earth and oppressed people. And all their slaves live in single units with private bathrooms with a window, and they get to hang out in the yard after work time, and they have entertainment, and they get all the food they want to eat.”
“So poor that they can’t add sugar to their milk—from Grapes of Wrath.”
“Guys, is this reasonable? Are primary school excursions this expensive these days? This is horrifying!”
OP attaches a permission slip for an excursion to Haikou’s Swan Lake Zoo (lunch not included) for 148 RMB per student.
Comments say, “I was wondering how expensive it was, and it’s just 148? I even read it twice, in case there were extra charges I missed.”
“If you’re this poor, don’t have kids. How is 148 too much?”
“Just checked this zoo’s tickets, and it’s 80 for adults and 50 for kids. If you took your kid by yourself, it’d cost you 130 RMB anyways. This includes taking your kid to and from, with teachers, and a tour guide. It seems like a great deal.”
“My MIL just told me to light some incense for the Buddha. I flipped the whole house upside down and couldn’t find any incense. Asked my MIL where our incense was, and she was like, “Oh, we have electronic incense. Just flip the switch on and it’ll light up. Then you can kneel down and make your prayer. Once you’re done, remember to switch it off again.””
Comments say, “Use electronic incense to pray to the cyber Buddha.”
“Do hell messengers come up to the mortal realm to charge you electricity fee?”
“They got electronic fireworks too. Just plug it in on the New Years and listen to it go off.”
“I have two bathrooms in my house, but they’re both super tiny, so I decided to install a squatting toilet in my master bedroom bathroom too.
At first, I didn’t understand what it would take. I didn’t think they’d have to raise the floor. Since I thought a raised floor looked ugly, I hesitated a lot whether or not to go through with it. I ended up going with it (because I have milk OCD).
My friends and neighbours have come over, and they all laughed at my decision. Even the remodeller said that nobody does this. My mom was the only one who was like, “Why not put this in the guest bathroom so everyone can use it?”
Turns out, I don’t regret it at all. I almost never use my sitting toilet anymore.”
Comments say, “Respect people’s individual tastes! There’s barely any room for us squatting toilet lovers anymore!”
“You’re better off putting a smart toilet in your master bedroom and putting a squatting toilet in your guest bathroom.”
“Your legs go numb if you sit on a toilet for too long, and you poop a lot faster squatting. Plus, toilet seats are covered in bacteria, and squatting toilets are so much easier to clean. You can give it a once over every time you shower.”
A compilation of people complaining about how unrealistic webnovels about the entertainment industry are:
“The male lead confessed his love for the female lead at his concert. It’s so goddamn evil.”
“If that happened in reality, fans would be running on stage to murder them.”
“Kimura Takuya did that, and his wife was internet bullied for over a decade for it.”
“The most hilarious plot point I’ve ever seen is that the protagonist was a diehard fan of someone, and buy multiples of their album every time. Three copies! Who the hell dares to buy just three copies and call themselves a diehard fan?”
“Yeah, you’ll get bullied to hell if you don’t buy enough, because diehard fans are like the leaders of the fan circle. As the leader, if you only buy three copies, who would even follow you? You don’t become a diehard fan unless you have money to blow.”
“It’s so fake. Like, if my idol was going to get married, he can announce it, he can show off his wedding photos, but he must never show off his loving relationship in front of me. It’s enough for me to know that he’s married. At least, not before 35. I guess it doesn’t matter after 35.”
“I wouldn’t even be able to handle an announcement. I’d rather he keep it hidden, like Andy Lau.”
“It depends on their persona, right? Like, up and coming idols would definitely get torn apart if they tried this shit. But if you’re an old award-winning leading man, or like rock star, would it still be that bad?”
“It’d still be ridiculous unless the male lead is in his 50s.”
“It’s even worse over in slashfic. A-list singers having a quickie backstage and make enough noise that their proper girlfriend finds out about it.”
Is Nineteen Eighty-Four easily available in China? I'd have thought it the kind of book that is frowned upon.
Insane what kind of (to mee) cryptic neologisms these Fans in the last post use. I am pretty sure inserting this into Google translate or Deepl would result in absolute gibberish. Thanks for translating!