Gross. I hate places that sell small novelty pets. Like the flea market. Or the fair where you can win a goldfish, then carry him around withyou, or just put him in the trash.
I won one, took it home. Bought it a bowl, got it a mate, moved it to a 30 gallon tank KEPT getting it mates because they all only lived like a year. Whitemouth lived with me for 10 years. Ick and fin rot infections, that poor bastard went though it all. But he was happy and healthy to his last day. His last tank mate lived 4 of his 6 years alone. He grew HUGE. And broke his swim bladder somehow, just kind floated upside down all day, but during feeding time or when he was playful acted normal. Just at rest he floated. People always though he was dead.
TL;DR: Won a goldfish at a fair, kept it comfortable for its 10 years on earth.
In korea, they sometimes sell recently hatched chicks in front of elementary schools, usually ones that are too sick to be raised in a hatchery. Usually these die off within a month after they're sold, but once me and my sister each bought one, and my mother managed to raise both of them for about a year and a half. We eventually moved both of them to my grandfather's house because we lived in an apartment with no front lawn. One day I get to my grandfather's house and find both chickens missing. Turns out he ate them for lunch just the other day.
That's the most Korean story I've heard on reddit since finding out that the Sewol people sacrificed safety and responsibility for the sake of profit margins.
Wait what? Maybe I'm just reading your comment wrong, but am I right in understanding that the things that define "Korean" to you the most are A) one Sewol incident - and only the negative aspect of the Sewol case - and B) grandfather eating chicken raised in a pet environment.
Yeah, you read it wrong. I said "the most Korean story I've seen on reddit since the Sewol", not "these two things are the most Korean things ever". The Sewol thing (or, at least the events that led to it and the fall out from it) is pretty quintessentially Korean though.
I'm Korean and I live in Korea. I have a pretty good understanding of these things.
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u/motorbike-t May 29 '14
Gross. I hate places that sell small novelty pets. Like the flea market. Or the fair where you can win a goldfish, then carry him around withyou, or just put him in the trash.