My friend Nami married right after she finished university, to her professor who was in his late 50s. She was 23. It was very sensational news to all our friends at that time. “what what? Nami got married to a professor older than her father?”
When I met Nami some years later, I was very surprised at how she looked. She looked like an old woman and acted like an old grandma. I noticed her old husband must have influenced her to act like that.
While we were talking about something, she said, “Whew, I don’t understand young people these days …” Her topics of conversation were limited to how to enhance our health, “Carrot juice is good for health, don’t forget to add some apples when you use a juicer” When she heard that I drink coffee when I wake up, she said, “what? Coffee on an empty stomach? No way!” I teased her, “hehe, coffee is of course for an empty stomach, what are we supposed to have then? Ginseng juice? Hahaha!”
When her son Youngduk entered elementary school, he was bullied by some other boys at school. To protect the son, the father was waiting for his son with a baseball bat after school, just in case.
Result?
Nami’s son Youngduk told the father a few days after. “Father, please don’t come to school. My all friends at school laugh at me! I would rather get beaten up than get picked up by you! Please don’t come, huh?”
yeah, that’s right.
Thats kind of a sad and funny story at the same time.