Chinese "Mistress Contest" Goes Horribly Wrong

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Story here.

This is a classic tale. A married Chinese businessman kept five mistresses. The present economic downturn compelled him to get rid of four of them. He held a contest to determine which one to keep. The first one eliminated drove a car containing all of the mistresses and the businessman off a cliff. But she was the only one who died. The police originally thought it was an accident … until they obtained a letter she left behind telling why she did it. The other four mistresses AND the wife all ended up leaving the businessman. :smiley:

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That’s absolutely brilliant.

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I lesson I learned years ago:
Can’t live with five mistresses, can’t live without them cause they’ll drive you off a cliff.

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Horribly wrong? Sure. But you can bet I’ll be watching next week’s episode.

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Yhay remeinds me of an episode of Babylon 5 in which Londo Mollari had recieved permission from his Emperor to divorce two of his three wives.

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Sounds like the basis for a terrific opera. “Madame Butterfly and the Four Unfortunate Pupae”.

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The man was stupid enough as it is letting the other mistresses know about each other, much less RIDE IN A CAR WITH THEM ALL.

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Apparently, they knew about each other from the beginning. They were sharing an apartment:

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Uhhh, waitaminute…

So, psychobitch tricks you into a car and then drives it off a cliff in order to kill herself and everyone else in the vehicle. And you pay her family for the privilege?? I don’t care if you “drove her to it” (no pun intended), her family doesn’t get paid, her estate gets sued. Sheesh…

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With 5 mistresses you get car roll.

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Can you make that with no MPG?

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So much of this kind of trouble would be avoided if group marriage were legal.

Of course, then this guy would have had other trouble…

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The understanding I got from the quote was that they each had their own apartment. They would more than ‘know of’ each other if they all lived in the same one.

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Sure thing, you get excellent mileage in free fall.
The Chinese ideogram for ‘trouble’ is three women in a house…

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A chinese fire drill would actually have helped or prevented the accident.

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Valentine’s Day must have sucked for that guy.

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I suppose it’s ambiguous. I would have written that they were reluctant to “give up their rent-free apartments” if they each had their own.

Yes, that was my point.

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I had the impression it was five different apartments. Recession or no recession, if the guy could pay almost US$85,000 to the dead girl’s family, he could probably afford separate places. But you never know. I happen to be acquainted with one American farang (Westerner) upcountry here in Thailand who does keep his own little harem under one roof. His present wife, a past wife or two and a girlfriend or two.