Was I having a "conservative" moment ?

Earlier today I called a nail salon I used to frequent about a manicure this week. Since today was a holiday here, I figured it might be closed and I’d leave a message about going in on Tuesday. But they were open, and someone answered. I wasn’t prepared to go in, so I asked about Tuesday.

"Sorry, we’re closed tomorrow."

"Oh, okay," I replied. "Funny, todays the holiday."

"What holiday ?" She asked.

"Memorial Day".

"Oh," she replied, dismissively. "We don’t really care about that. We’re Vietnamese."

Stung, I thought, but you live and have your business here. I bit my tongue and didn’t say it, though.

She asked if I wanted an appointment on Wednesday; I told her I’d call again and hung up. She’s not the shop owner, so I might still go. 🙁

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Robynthebeautiful

There maybe inner issues with what she said

In Australia we call it ANZAC Day (Australian & New Zealand Army Corps from WW1)
Years ago it was a day or so before that day and I asked an old guy regular customer of ours if he is going to ANZAC Day and he just said no, I was there rather grumpy.
I was like WOW. He is old enough.

About a week later I asked him more and it turned out he as a child was in the German camps in WW2 and showed me his number tattoo on his arm and told me some things that happened to him. He had tears in his old eyes
He just didn't want to be reminded of it.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Robynthebeautiful this was like my own father, who was also in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia then. There were things he just never wanted to talk about. Yet in bits and pieces over a couple of decades he did reveal some of it.

Some of it was very important for me to know. Like about my grandmother who somehow managed to escape the Nazis.

Robynthebeautiful

@DeWayfarer
What this old guy told me was dodging American bombs as they usually built camps near industry.
Being beaten to an inch of his life for trying to kill and eat the camp bosses horse and some guards taking some girl into the forest, hearing a few gunshots and guards return without girl.

bijouxbroussard · F

@DeWayfarer I didn’t know your grandparents were Holocaust survivors. When I was growing up some of my older neighbors were, too. I was friends with their grandchildren and occasionally they would tell me about their lives. 😞

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Robynthebeautiful no need to go into the details. Both my parents were affected, some of it worse than that. I still have problems telling the story which is incomplete on here.

I stopped at when he went into the concentration camp.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@bijouxbroussard

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