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mack4289
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:05 pm Post subject: what's the lowest (non-criminal) thing you've done? |
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| I just hit my low- I was out late last night and didn't get up to see my Mom off to the airport. Not seeing your mother off to the aiport in a foreign country has got to rank pretty high on the "worst non-criminal things you can do" scale. God, I feel awful. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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My wife has a strained relationship with her family, so we have skipped
1) her sister's wedding
2) chuseok feasts for three years in a row |
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whatever
Joined: 11 Jun 2006
Location: Korea: More fun than jail.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Damn, you win, Mack. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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i convinced a 6-month rebound girlfriend to get an abortion on the false promise that she and i would stay together; i then dumped her a month after she got it done
(i was only 22 years old ! )
i don't feel awful because i didn't love her and was totally "phew" about it, but in hindsight that was a pretty low thing to do to a person |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh my. I once got jealous and angry because a girl was talking a lot to a guy I liked, so when she wasn't looking, I grabbed her handphone and took it to the bathroom, flushed it's battery down the toilet, and threw the phone up under the sink at the bar. She never found her phone that night, and later on another night when I went back, her phone was still up under the sink. I got it and took it home and trashed it at my house. It took her a while to get a new handphone, too, because she would use the bar's phone whenever she would come in there. Now, I don't even know what I saw in that guy in the first place. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
My wife has a strained relationship with her family, so we have skipped
1) her sister's wedding
2) chuseok feasts for three years in a row |
I'd use the word "fortunate" in this case rather than "low" |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
i convinced a 6-month rebound girlfriend to get an abortion on the false promise that she and i would stay together; i then dumped her a month after she got it done
(i was only 22 years old ! )
i don't feel awful because i didn't love her and was totally "phew" about it, but in hindsight that was a pretty low thing to do to a person |
We've all done stupid things. Nothing to feel bad about.
But don't play it down to your age, you were 22, not 18. When I came here (a whooping 3 months ago) I was 22, and people were constantly reminding me of how young I was. Twenty-two is not young, you're old enough to understand the difference between right and wrong in a complex way, at least you should be and if you're not able to then you can't be expected to twenty years later either.
It was a mistake, though an adult mistake and not a childish one.
Egads, when people come here they make such a big deal out of age. Its driving me a little nuts. Back home, no one would refer to you as young at twenty-two. Next people are going to be saying thirty is young and stupid stuff you do when you're thirty is excusable because you don't know any better. |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| princess wrote: |
| Oh my. I once got jealous and angry because a girl was talking a lot to a guy I liked, so when she wasn't looking, I grabbed her handphone and took it to the bathroom, flushed it's battery down the toilet, and threw the phone up under the sink at the bar. She never found her phone that night, and later on another night when I went back, her phone was still up under the sink. I got it and took it home and trashed it at my house. It took her a while to get a new handphone, too, because she would use the bar's phone whenever she would come in there. Now, I don't even know what I saw in that guy in the first place. |
That would be theft. Theft is criminal princess.
Reading skillz? |
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Jarome_Turner
Joined: 10 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| IncognitoHFX wrote: |
| VanIslander wrote: |
i convinced a 6-month rebound girlfriend to get an abortion on the false promise that she and i would stay together; i then dumped her a month after she got it done
(i was only 22 years old ! )
i don't feel awful because i didn't love her and was totally "phew" about it, but in hindsight that was a pretty low thing to do to a person |
We've all done stupid things. Nothing to feel bad about.
But don't play it down to your age, you were 22, not 18. When I came here (a whooping 3 months ago) I was 22, and people were constantly reminding me of how young I was. Twenty-two is not young, you're old enough to understand the difference between right and wrong in a complex way, at least you should be and if you're not able to then you can't be expected to twenty years later either.
It was a mistake, though an adult mistake and not a childish one.
Egads, when people come here they make such a big deal out of age. Its driving me a little nuts. Back home, no one would refer to you as young at twenty-two. Next people are going to be saying thirty is young and stupid stuff you do when you're thirty is excusable because you don't know any better. |
It used to kill me when I first got here (24 at the time), and got treated like a child by people a whopping 2 years older than me. 
"Don't smoke in front of him, he's older than you." 
"If he offers you a drink, you cannot refuse, he's your hyoung!"
"You can't go home yet, I want to drink more and I'm older!"
At the time I was worried about insulting most Koreans (well, to be honest, it was never a Korean of the fairer sex) I met who were older that I was. I quickly got over it tho, there's no way I (as a grown man) will bow down to someone and allow them to make decisions for me because they happend to be born a year or two, or even ten, before I did.
Now, there are exceptions. I usually try and afford the highest level of respect I can to old folks (old meaning senior citizen status I guess) if they show it in return. Don't snarl at me like an ignorant old adjoshee and I'll gladly pour your drink with two hands. |
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