tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21660195.post4218587456243089837..comments2023-05-11T09:55:44.182-04:00Comments on From the Experiences of a J.A.(C.)P.: Old KvetchJ.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02731016571917740228noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21660195.post-6747892383565958172008-01-30T11:02:00.000-05:002008-01-30T11:02:00.000-05:00Don't worry, it won't happen. I'm too cranky to co...Don't worry, it won't happen. I'm too cranky to compete with JACP's bubbly wit.<BR/><BR/>On a more serious note, I'd love to see this blog linked to all the frum blogs out there. (Not that anyone REALLY frum reads them because the interenet is assur and I am posting this telepathically.)<BR/>There really needs to be more of an effort made within the frum community (which is amazing when it comes to chesed) to engage the old grey matter before operating the mouth around cholim. <BR/>It would take half the crooked lawyers (is that an oxymoron?) or two congressmen to construe (for my fellow yeshiva-educated readers: that isn’t a dirty word. It means using all three of your thumbs to ‘fahrenfer’ a ‘shverer kashah’ your chavrusa just shot through your biggest chiddush since third grade by changing the simple pshat in a posuk, and not oxymoron is not an idiot with bad acne) as helpful or supportive some of the comments I heard during a couple of significant entanglements with the health care system. <BR/>I’ll spare you all the details right now but suffice it to say that if some visitors put as little thought into applying cosmetics (now there’s a three syllable word I don’t need to define for the frum crowd!) as they obviously put into their words of support and comfort they would probably be wearing ………….. well, let’s just say that the paint & shellac department at Walmart would be prrrretty busy.<BR/>I’d love to one day hear that instead of a shidduch candidate (I’m so old I remember when it was called DATING!) was turned down because he wore lace up shoes instead of slip-ons (or lace-up ones the frum shoes of choice now? I’d look it up but we don’t have internet) he was accepted because he is such a mentch he can even get in and out of a hospital room without raising anyone’s blood pressure (the union healthcare workers local negotiated exclusive right to that in their last contract).<BR/> Seriouslly, folks, B”H, and of course bli ayin horah, kain yirbu, adank tzu der rebbono shel oilem, pupupu, ( whatever that means in Hungarian, although I’ve always suspected it means shut up, there is litvak in the room) tie a red bendel around your neck and a yellow one around the old oak tree) we are so careful about lashon horah today (and we are soooo careful to make hurtful comments only in nicer ways then our parents ever dreamed of , but then again, they all drank cholov stam and ate Hershey bars and put no-hechsher gasoline in their cars on erev pesach (before chatzos, I’m sure) ) that we should be able to make pleasant and supportive comments and suggestions pleasantly and supportively (it passed spell-check so I know it is either a real word or Bill Gates and I made the same mistake and believe me, with his money, he could make a GREAT shidduch even in moccasins).<BR/>Now that the printing of the official which-side-pays-for-what-and-who-buys-what-for-who-and-how-much-it-better-cost-or-this-shidduch-is-in-BIG-trouble guide has made the world safe from chossonim and kallahs who figure out for themselves which limb each parent parents do without in order to make the perfect wedding and which course of the melai’as ponim they can skip so the kallahs father won’t spend shevah brachos in CICU, perhaps someone can print a basic guide to bikur cholim. (We can tell people it was written by a mequbal by the name of M Me Men Mena Menach Menachem who lives four stories below ground in a cave under Matesdorf and is the only one who knows how many pairs of tzitzis the Arizal wore because they were chavrusas in chevron. Or we found it in the new tzva’ah of reb yehuda hachosid, and learning it is a segula for an apartment in Har Nof with a mirpeset facing the Old City (or Bayit Vegan, depends on which direction your thumbs point when you bentch Chanukah licht. <BR/>Note to the guy who sold me (at a great price even though his brother had gone to teveria three time until he convinced the sephardi at the REAL mikvah of the Arizal to let him in and he wasn’t going to steal any water so he soaked it up in his socks and squeezed it out into the bottle later) that Poland Springs bottle that was supposed to be filled with water that ONE DROP could cure even illnesses your doctor doesn’t know you have (as his cousin not dying from cancer he didn’t have proves): How did the cap reattach itself to that little ring that should have separated from the cap when your brother opened it to pour out the plain spring water and why does a bottle from eretz yisroel have a ‘5 cent deposit in NY, CT, MA’ printed on the label?<BR/>Anyone care to put up a bikur cholim website? (Not for unzerer, fahrshtaitzoch. For the modernesher who have internet. ) I would do it myself but of course REAL frum people like me don’t use the internet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21660195.post-55104963865366381802008-01-27T19:03:00.000-05:002008-01-27T19:03:00.000-05:00LOL, but almost too true to laugh at... JACP, I th...LOL, but almost too true to laugh at... JACP, I think you have competition.Bas~Melechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01511197551248863790noreply@blogger.com