Unfiltered Story #244476

When my mother was little, her family had to flee their home due to advancing communist troops. On their way to the seaport, they came across some relatives; a young widow and her two small children, carrying only two cloth bags of clothes.
My grandmother: “Ha, look at those idiots, leaving with so little, and letting their horses free!”
The refugee ship would not allow my mother’s family on with all of their furniture, tractor, horses, etc, so they returned home. They arrived to find all their remaining posessions gone, and soon the communists took what little they had left, and forced them to flee once more, with nothing. Soon enough, my grandparents starved, leaving their children to fend for themselves. As for the widow and chldren who gave up all their stuff: they made it safely to the west and prospered.