【Historical Live Broadcast】Watching videos and being seen by our ancestors

Once, I was eating at Burger King with my daughter, and my husband was waiting for our meal. Because I was worried that she would play on her phone, I deliberately teased her by saying, "I want to eat ice cream, I want to eat it, I want to eat it!"

As a result, a woman in her thirties, probably thinking I was mentally challenged and that my child was pitiful yet resilient, came over and gave me an ice cream. Seriously, I had no choice but to finish playing the mentally challenged character, otherwise it would have been even more embarrassing.

[For a while, I wasn't feeling well and needed to use medicated patches. Those patches had to be washed after being peeled off, and sometimes they wouldn't stick. Once, I had to go out to send a package and didn't have time to wash them, and they kept falling off. I was supporting my belly when I came back and encountered people advertising and pestering me to scan their WeChat QR codes. An auntie who was drying her blankets next to me came up with a clothes fork and stabbed me, saying, "You heartless thing, you even scam pregnant women!"]

When I was a child, my family was not well-off. My mother always ate the fish heads and tails and left the fish bellies for us.

After learning Chinese reading comprehension, I discovered this phenomenon, so I would always remove the head and tail of the fish and give her the belly instead.

The more my mom refused, the more I felt sorry for her (she complained even about eating a bite of food, which really put me under moral pressure). This went on for over ten years, and even after I started working, she was still like this. I finally couldn't take it anymore and said, "Mom, you're really putting a lot of pressure on me. It's not like we can't afford fish; I can feed you every day. Eating well isn't illegal."

My mom: What are you talking about? I love the tender meat around the fish's mouth, and the tailbone too. You keep taking mine and you still complain!

[I recall Lan Zhanfei eating abroad, swaying his head as he ate. The waiter, thinking he was a special case, brought him a bib and even put it on him personally. He was puzzled, saying, "This service is really good, but why didn't you give me one?"]

When I was very young, we were having dinner together. When we were leaving, I saw someone who looked a lot like my aunt. After confirming it several times, I rushed over and shouted, "Auntie!"

Then, the auntie glanced at me, and I awkwardly realized she wasn't my aunt. I don't know what I was thinking at the time, but I just kept bowing and saying "Hello, Auntie!" to everyone leaving the restaurant. I was thinking that if they thought I was stupid, I wouldn't be embarrassed anymore…

"When I was in college, I went to the cafeteria to buy rice noodles. Because my throat was sore, I pointed to 'this...' on the menu."

The boss probably thought I was Japanese because I'm short, and he said to me in a colonel's tone, "This is spicy, can you eat this?"

I waved my hand and said, "I'm not Japanese..." He said, "Sorry, sorry, you're Korean, but your Chinese is pretty good." [laughing and crying emoji]

"After my aunt got divorced, she suddenly wanted to learn piano (she was 26 at the time, a beautiful age). She couldn't read the scales smoothly yet, so she would hold up one hand and slowly stroke do,,,re m,,,mi, putting down one finger after singing a note, tilting her head and looking up at a 45-degree angle with a serious and slightly smiling expression. It was very similar."

"Once, I was very tired after get off work and was sitting on the subway, not paying any attention to others. Halfway through, I noticed a pregnant woman standing in front of me. I felt really embarrassed and quickly offered her my seat. She looked at me with a puzzled expression. That's when I realized that she was just tilting her pelvis forward and sticking out her belly."

"When I was 19 and studying in Japan, I went to run some errands. I just threw on a Lolita dress (without a petticoat), put on a pair of flat loafers, and carried my huge tote bag (commonly known online as a mommy bag)."

On my way back, while waiting for the bus, I happened to catch the girls' high school nearby letting out of class. I had to line up behind them, thinking I definitely wouldn't get a seat.

After boarding the bus, I found several girls gesturing for me to sit in the seats they had taken. Confused, I thanked them and sat down.

We were almost at the station, and I almost missed my stop because I pressed the stop button too late. My sisters shouted at the driver all at once, "A lady wants to get off!" "This lady hasn't gotten off yet!" "Someone wants to get off!" They managed to get the driver to stop the bus.

I was still thinking about it after getting off the bus, and it didn't come to my senses until I went to sleep...

She was mistaken by high school students for a "young pregnant woman with no family around to take care of her" [facepalm]

"Sometimes I don't like to talk, so I like to pretend to be deaf and mute."

"Once at school, I had a really bad sore throat and completely lost my voice. When I went to pick up a package, I could only write the pickup code on my phone and then gesture it. The delivery guy bowed to me after he picked up the package, probably because he thought it was very inspiring [crying emoji]"

"I sprained my ankle before starting the job, and my mother-in-law had to push me to work in a wheelchair on my first day. All my colleagues naturally assumed we had hired a disabled person..."

“I went to climb Tiantangzhai before, and when I took a taxi back, I had a lot of lactic acid buildup the next day, which made it very difficult for me to walk, and my legs seemed out of control.”

Then, when I hailed a taxi and got into the car, it was incredibly slow, and my posture was extremely awkward. The female driver was about to turn around and yell at me, wondering how someone could take so long to get into a car.

Later, seeing how awkwardly I got on the bus, she immediately gave me a very sympathetic look. I knew what she was thinking, so I immediately said I wasn't disabled, I had just finished hiking.

When I was in college, my family would send me stir-fried cured pork, so I'd go to the cafeteria to get rice and vegetables to go. Several times I'd order just 50 cents worth of rice and a 70-cent vegetable dish—only those two things. Every time, the cafeteria lady would fill that one vegetable dish to the brim; the portion was huge. I think she probably thought I was too small and pitiful for only ordering one vegetable dish. [Cute emoji]

"When I was in junior high school in 2010, only cash was accepted. You could hail a taxi. (Back then, my proudest achievement was having my own wallet. My mom would give me fifty yuan, which I would put in my wallet, and the coins in my pocket.) Once in the taxi, I was bored, so I took out three or four coins and kept fiddling with them in my hand. I was sitting in the passenger seat when the driver suddenly raised the meter and said, 'Little girl, don't be nervous, don't fiddle with your little bit of money. If you don't have enough, I'll give you some.' [crying emoji][laughing emoji]"

Ancient people under the sky: No, this is too embarrassing. I don't even want to think about how I would look in front of others.

If it's just this once, that's fine, but what if we meet again later? Wouldn't that be even more awkward?

Being pitied as a special group for no reason, even though I know it's well-intentioned, still makes me feel a little... uneasy.

The kid playing with his friends: I've made that mistake of picking up fish before, but that day we weren't eating fish at home, we were eating tofu pudding.

At that time, my mother bought two bowls of tofu pudding from outside. She didn't eat any herself, but gave one bowl to my brother and me. My brother was young and didn't understand, so he ate the whole bowl in one go. I thought I was a big kid now, so I should eat half and leave the other half for my mother. So I ate a few bites and lied that I was full and couldn't eat anymore.

As a result, my mother got angry and scolded me for wasting food. Then she poured the tofu pudding onto the dog. I, who was not full at the time, burst into tears when I saw the dog, who was already full.

My mother asked me why I was crying. She scolded me a few times, and I started crying. I was too embarrassed to tell her the real reason.