An embarrassing argument tonight

Tonight, my parents and I had dinner in a restaurant, together with some friends of my parents and their children. My father drank too much wine and after that he started to say something annoying and unpleasant things.

Among these people, there was a child who had done something crazy in school. He was almost exiled by expelled from school. But later he turned into a good person. Now he has a fairly decent job. Just as I've mentioned, my father was drunk, so he started to talk about that child and criticize what the child did in the past.(My father and his father are best friends so my father knows everything about the child.) You know, my father is a righteous guy. He thought what the child did was too serious to let it go. He kept talking about it in order to remind the child of what he did in the past. He wanted the child to not forget his past even if the child has changed into a better man. Maybe my father's opinion was right, but the way he talked about it was really embarrassing. In order not to make my father lose face, the child had to smile all the time and admit that he was wrong in the past.

My mother is kind-hearted. She didn't want the family dinner to become a fight so she stood on the child's side. She spoke for the child. But that was hopeless, my father was still talking …… Oh, who can save a drunk man..!

When we arrived home, I told my father that he was too harsh on the child and he shouldn't take the friendship for granted.(Chinese tend to be bad-tempered to their close friends.) However, my father thought I was too naive. He told me that there were so many things I didn't know. Yes I don't know what happened in the past, but I know we should always show respect to others even that's for our friends.

Thank you for reading... hope you get my point and discussions are welcome~^ ^

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