See how trusting, can get you, SCREWED??? So, do NOT trust anybody, but do trust yourselves, as there are, too many, SCAMMERS out there! Off of the Newspapers, translated…
Before my father passed, he was this intelligent, widely read, helpful, elderly, knew everything about the locale, the histories, the artifacts, there would be people who'd come and visit for his, stories, he'd loved being helpful, in answering all their, inquiries too.
One day, a middle-aged man came, using the excuses of wanting to learn more about the local artifacts, and my father who was alone at home, started chatting with him, they enjoyed one another's, company, the man boasted about his own massage skills, that he can reduce the aches and pains, and, asked if my father had the troubles, that he could, help my father relieve his muscles a bit.
In his persuasion, my father slowly lost his guard, lain on the couch, at the man's will, after a few massages, the man told my father, "the chain on your neck, uncle, blocked my hand, why don't you take it off, put it aside for a bit, so I can, work your shoulders." My father didn't question him, took the chain off, and left it on the tea tray, later, my father felt it was, dangerous, reached for the chain, but the man quickly, grabbed my father's chain, then, ran like the wind. And, how can my father in his seventies, catch up to the younger visitor? And he can only, watch the man, run away with his necklace.
what the writer's father encountered, the snatch and grab, because he was, way too, trusting of others...photo from online
My father cared about his appearances, that gold necklace that weighed nearly two grams, was simply, way too glowing and shiny to resist, a lot of people told him to watch it carefully, that trouble was bound to, find, him, my father was too self-confident, and, cast all these, words of warnings, aside, out of his, mind, believing, that he "couldn't be so, unlucky", and yet, his necklace, was snatched and grabbed, and the visitor ran off with it, other than losing the gold, that hit him hard, and ever since, he'd become, depressed, until he died.
The idiom of "we should NOT show our assets, keeping our materialistic wealth hidden", "we shouldn't hurt but we should keep our guards up from preventing to be taken advantage of", had my father followed these two ancient idioms, I'm thinking, that he wouldn't have, lost the gold.
So, this is how we need to guard ourselves, especially from those whom we know, and those that we don't, because, people are, OUT to take advantage, not everybody is good, and sometimes, this is, a lesson that we must, learn, learn, learn again, until we finally, wise, up, and this was a huge HIT for this elderly man, because he put his trust in this stranger, who seemed kind enough, but the stranger had his eye on the elderly's gold all along.
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