Tilapia
(Baonghean.vn) - Sometimes I also play the fishing game. Sometimes I am the fish, sometimes I play the fisherman. Once I broke up with my boyfriend, I absolutely did not reply to his text messages or phone calls to try to win him back. I don't know what he was thinking when he texted me this message: "I was planning to buy you a pair of shoes you like but before I could buy them, you asked to break up."
Tilapia are indeed omnivorous. As children, we often broke off small bamboo branches, tied fishing line with blunt hooks. For bait, we just had to go to the garden to dig up an earthworm, break it into tiny pieces and hook it. But the tilapia ate it up, sometimes only a dozen, sometimes a bucket. The first day we fried it, the whole family praised it as delicious. But then for a whole week, every day we saw a plate of tilapia on the dinner table. My mother was fed up and told us to give the fish to the neighbors. It was funny, we thought that after a few days of being "on the plate", the fish would learn to be smart and not take the bait anymore. But the omnivorous nature of tilapia is really not a joke. We fished them every day but they didn't seem to get any smarter.
Later on, my family raised dogs. The dogs still often went to the garden to relieve themselves, but sometimes they also went to the middle of the yard. My mother ordered me to clean up their battlefield, but I was too lazy to do so and dumped them into the pond. The tilapia fish jumped in and ate them, so from then on, every time I had to clean up the dogs, I put all my trust in the fish. And from then on, I absolutely refused to eat fish from the pond, even though my mother, every time she had guests over and was too lazy to go to the market, would still order me to go out and catch some fish and fry them. Everyone who ate them praised the fish for being fat and delicious. I kept quiet and said nothing. But I had to admit that the fish was really fat.
Growing up, I sometimes played the fishing game. Sometimes I was the fish, sometimes I played the fisherman. Once I broke up with my boyfriend, I absolutely did not reply to his text messages or phone calls to try to win him back. I don't know what he was thinking when he texted me this: "I was planning to buy you a pair of shoes you like but before I could buy them, you asked to break up." I laughed so hard I didn't text back. The next day he texted again: "Shoes and a bag too." I told my friends about this story and then I realized that this is an old trick that guys often use to win back their girlfriends when they have no reason to cling on. But my friend met a guy who was even more "stingy" because every time he texted, he kept repeating "I bought you a box of cookies you like to eat." We told each other that if one box of cookies doesn't make her fall in love, he should "increase" to two, three, four boxes. People are not tilapia, so they will eat anything.
My family's pond is still raising tilapia. Sometimes when I visit home, my mother still asks me to go fishing for food. Of course, I refuse. Anything that is fat is not necessarily delicious, and anything that is delicious is not necessarily edible.