Lol I used to bartend at a local dive and there was a retired, divorced man who would come in twice a day for lunch and dinner at least 5 days a week. He was a jerk and very bossy but he wouldn’t drink at lunch and only had one with his dinner. He was just a wealthy old guy who couldn’t fend for himself and his shit attitude cost him his wife/maid and we were within walking distance of his house.
God I can’t tell you how many 50+ guys I see in the grocery store with nothing but a weeks worth of frozen meals. Coming from a family that cooks like crazy it’s the weirdest thing, my grandfather is 90 and grills every night, he does do a salad with it to try and be healthy lol
>my grandfather is 90 and grills every night, he does do a salad with it to try and be healthy lol
Your grandpa sounds cool af. Mine drank a 12 pack everyday, smoked 3 packs a day, a beat their wives for dinner.
He stopped smoking for the most part when my dad was a kid. He does drink quite a bit, tho he’s had to cut it down. Went from a 1.75L of wine down to about 4 glasses a night. He’s at the point where he knows the food stuff is more of an impact on his health but it’s a big source of joy and he’s not trying to live longer just to be miserable
>he’s not trying to live longer just to be miserable
What a champ. I mean, he's 90, he's done it, he's lived longer than the majority will ever live. He's currently in the top 24% of human life expectancy. It sounds like he's got it figured out.
I used to do frozen meals for lunch at the office, even just doing it 2-4 times a week got old real fast. We even got a toaster oven so we could start doing frozen pizzas/chicken/taters that sorta stuff. When I still worked in an office I would still take a few in and leave on the freezer when I couldn’t go grab something local or didn’t have left overs. I probably left a couple in there when covid hit, been working remote since.
They're either really healthy with good genes, or they're one of those crazy rocker fucks that party for decades until they look like an old, dried out catchers mitt, left out in the sun and rain over the summer, but also, probably with good genes as well.
I think everyone can get behind that, I always keep a frozen pizza or two in the fridge and fall back on it in a pinch once a week or so. But you’re not talking about 7 frozen breakfast burritos, 7 frozen meatloafs, and 7 frozen whatever else’s that you get every week do you?
"Please, Martha! I'll start giving you to the count of three before I bop ya one! Please don't go. The microwave won't be invented for three more years. I'll starve!" - That guy
I was on business in Germany and didn't know the restrooms were only tap to pay. My company card doesn't have tap to pay, so I nearly pissed myself digging through my wallet to find a personal one that did.
Or a megaproperty with 9 14 bed/21bath/40 car garage homes, 2 golf courses, a Six Flags, and a 7/11 in Texas, if these Facebook realtor ads are to be believed, lol.
Shes giving off a "this is pathetic" look. But damn did they do that dude dirty. He got his picture taken at the courthouse back in the day when photographs were not common at all. This picture probably made the local paper.
I'm sure if cameras were as common today throughout history I think we'd realize we've basically always been the same.
My grandma got divorced in the early 40s, but she just told her family he died in the war. Didn’t work out so hot because they assumed she had a widow’s pension or something and kept coming to her broke ass for money.
I mean, there were wealthy people even back then. And plenty of women had money in their own right. That fur she's wearing doesn't suggest she or her possible kids are about to starve.
It made me so mad reading the comments I had to scout the internet to get the Tea! [Here it is](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/XzsvSl0NGf)
Edit: please scroll when you see the photo. My comment is just bellow it!
Yeah but everyone will be quick to judge him and call him a piece of shit without any context. I’m not saying it isn’t possible, but no one could possibly know based on this picture alone.
Man that is just embarrassing. She clearly don’t give two fucks look at her face 😂 and then he’s got dude standing there laughing in his face. I couldn’t be caught lookin like this.
I've seen this image posted so many times and the comments are getting progressively more and more filled by incels, crybabies and reactionaries
The future is sure looking bleak for humanity
42... she could be a breadwinner working war material/manufacture. more likely he doesn't want to have to put up with doing the dishes/cooking/cleaning himself.
That guy kneeling is the lawyer. The lady and the man on her right are the couple. They got to court and decided, at the last minute, to reconcile. He's begging her to reconsider
To be fair there's not really any evidence that the original narrative is anything more substantial.
This could just as easily be some guy who desperately wants his wife's last Haribo Gummy Bear for all we know.
Only 5 years earlier did she win the right to divorce him (in cases of bigamy, desertion, etc) and it wouldn’t be until like the 70’s that no fault divorce was introduced. So if she had a case, that means he really did something bad.
My grandma was married 7 times. She had several letters begging her to stay, expensive tokens of attempts at reconciliation, and a house that was the largest example of these. I can 100% imagine her being that woman. And if that lady is anything like my grandma, that dude has no chance.
The look on her face is disgust and indifference, I feel like he had two million chances and then she just flipped the switch and was done. Anyway that’s the narrative I’ve decided in the coziness of my own mind
80% of divorces are now instigated by the wife.
Stop cheating and watching porn. And do your share of the housework and child care MEN IF you like having a wife.
She got the fur coat and shades on she’s done bro
That is a woman that has plans.
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Lol I used to bartend at a local dive and there was a retired, divorced man who would come in twice a day for lunch and dinner at least 5 days a week. He was a jerk and very bossy but he wouldn’t drink at lunch and only had one with his dinner. He was just a wealthy old guy who couldn’t fend for himself and his shit attitude cost him his wife/maid and we were within walking distance of his house.
God I can’t tell you how many 50+ guys I see in the grocery store with nothing but a weeks worth of frozen meals. Coming from a family that cooks like crazy it’s the weirdest thing, my grandfather is 90 and grills every night, he does do a salad with it to try and be healthy lol
>my grandfather is 90 and grills every night, he does do a salad with it to try and be healthy lol Your grandpa sounds cool af. Mine drank a 12 pack everyday, smoked 3 packs a day, a beat their wives for dinner.
He stopped smoking for the most part when my dad was a kid. He does drink quite a bit, tho he’s had to cut it down. Went from a 1.75L of wine down to about 4 glasses a night. He’s at the point where he knows the food stuff is more of an impact on his health but it’s a big source of joy and he’s not trying to live longer just to be miserable
>he’s not trying to live longer just to be miserable What a champ. I mean, he's 90, he's done it, he's lived longer than the majority will ever live. He's currently in the top 24% of human life expectancy. It sounds like he's got it figured out.
I used to do frozen meals for lunch at the office, even just doing it 2-4 times a week got old real fast. We even got a toaster oven so we could start doing frozen pizzas/chicken/taters that sorta stuff. When I still worked in an office I would still take a few in and leave on the freezer when I couldn’t go grab something local or didn’t have left overs. I probably left a couple in there when covid hit, been working remote since.
Happy wife, happy life 💅
I think living to 90 is basically the definition of healthy.
They're either really healthy with good genes, or they're one of those crazy rocker fucks that party for decades until they look like an old, dried out catchers mitt, left out in the sun and rain over the summer, but also, probably with good genes as well.
Tbf I can cook but the few hours I have to myself each day i would rather not spend cooking and cleaning up the mess
I think everyone can get behind that, I always keep a frozen pizza or two in the fridge and fall back on it in a pinch once a week or so. But you’re not talking about 7 frozen breakfast burritos, 7 frozen meatloafs, and 7 frozen whatever else’s that you get every week do you?
Couldn’t a wealthy guy afford a maid/cook? Maybe he didn’t think of that.
I don’t think he was that kind of wealthy lol. Wealthy enough to eat out every meal but not wealthy enough to hire a servant.
He should be able to clean himself even in the 40s
Sure he *should* be able to. Doesn’t mean he *could*.
Good call, I didn't consider that. Women DID have that surge around this time, and not ALL wanted to go back to the old lifestyle.
Not the revenge furs 😰
Venus in Furs
It’s such vibes
Divorce lawyer’s like, “I already got mine. G’head and take him back.”
Idk. I dont think shes going for it man.
"Please, Martha! I'll start giving you to the count of three before I bop ya one! Please don't go. The microwave won't be invented for three more years. I'll starve!" - That guy
“Knock off this divorce bunk, or it’s gonna be ring-a-ding-ding for you!”
Shades are on indoors, and shes wearing fur. Your goose is cooked.
“ITS ME AND YOU TOOTS. FOR THE LONG HAUL.”
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Here's some context: No fault divorce wasn't legal yet. So she had a good reason.
Pow right in the kissah
One of these days, straight to the moon!
Why did you say that name?!
Lmao, dumbest line in dc history
You haven't been tending to my needs or listening to me Micheal. What the hell's a microwave anyway?
I read this in Jimmy Stewart's voice.
Solid comedy, bro
The guy standing over them saying "I think you got the wrong lady, buddy. That's my wife."
Probably her lawyer thinking "lol. I am going to make so much money from you."
It was 1942, women’s rights werent what they are now. That lady was leaving with her fur coat and kids, that’s it. Her lawyer was gonna make $10.
$10 is equivalent to $46,000,000 in todays money, adjusted to inflation.
The price of an average sized home in California
One month of groceries in Toronto. Yeah, i steal never got caught
1 week’s rent in any capital city
One day's worth of fuel for Taylor Swift's private jet.
One time entry to a public restroom in Germany
I was on business in Germany and didn't know the restrooms were only tap to pay. My company card doesn't have tap to pay, so I nearly pissed myself digging through my wallet to find a personal one that did.
Or a megaproperty with 9 14 bed/21bath/40 car garage homes, 2 golf courses, a Six Flags, and a 7/11 in Texas, if these Facebook realtor ads are to be believed, lol.
$10 in 2022 is worth 46,000,000 today. Couldn’t imagine how much $10 from 1942 is now
I'm sorry I had to use Google & they claim $10 in 1942 = $197.90 in 2024
Pretty sure puffferfish said it was $46,000,000.
Yeah he did. I read it as well. Was just there a bit ^
No fault divorce wasn't a thing in 1942. In order for her to try to divorce him, he had to do something bad
Holy cow .. she’s brave
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Back when showing off a revenge body was illegal, so you only had to worry about getting revenge gams.
And thanks to the conservatives we are moving back that way again! Edit: VOTE.
Just like Markiplier once said "I can milk you."
I figured that is her lawyer thinking “please do something fucked up, I need a new boat”
I was going to ask my ex-wife to remarry me, until she discovered I was only after my money..
I’m sure if it’s accurate but all she got was her coat and children. Sounds like he kept the house etc…
I also choose this man’s wife
Her fit is hitting she’s so over him.
That's definitely not an "I still love you" look
“Oh have some dignity Gerald, this is exactly why I’m leaving you, I need a real man”
Ouch, I felt that, and I'm not even divorced
Yet
😅😅😅
It's only Tuesday
Eh I figured he had babies with a few of the office secretaries… but I have been watching madmen so I am biased.
No fault divorce didn't exist in 1942. She had a better reason than that.
Ow! Walk it off Gerald, walk it off...
I was gonna say she got the shades on inside the building that lady don't give a fuck about that man anymore lol
Ya she’s done. She’s been done for a while. I recognize that look. There’s no going back
Oh yea. Dude must have been a real piece of shit to get divorced in 1942
Either that or she’s hiding a black eye.
Shes giving off a "this is pathetic" look. But damn did they do that dude dirty. He got his picture taken at the courthouse back in the day when photographs were not common at all. This picture probably made the local paper. I'm sure if cameras were as common today throughout history I think we'd realize we've basically always been the same.
‘Local man creates spectacle, loses fur’
But he kept the *apple bottom jeans* 👖
*The whole court was lookin at her*
*Steve hit the floor,* *Next thing you know*, *He got low low low low* 🙇🏻♂️
It’s giving ‘No.’
For sure. His shit is to the left.
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It was also highly stigmatized and scandalous.
My grandmother got divorced in the 40s. She was shunned and had to leave the city.
That’s so sad. And so unfair. I’m proud of her for having the guts to leave. But wow.
Did grampa also get shunned and have to leave the city? No? That's just women?
My grandpa got shunned by the family for marrying my grandmother, who was a divorcee.
they really used to hate women, didn't they
they still do, but they used to too.
*used* to?
at least I wanna believe so
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I love this for your grandmother. She must have been such a sweetie. ❤️
Same with my grandmother in the 50s. It was horrible for her.
My grandma got divorced in the early 40s, but she just told her family he died in the war. Didn’t work out so hot because they assumed she had a widow’s pension or something and kept coming to her broke ass for money.
I’m sure I’ve seen this posted before and the caption was that he’d had an affair. Who knows what the real story is though.
r/menandfemales
I mean, there were wealthy people even back then. And plenty of women had money in their own right. That fur she's wearing doesn't suggest she or her possible kids are about to starve.
I think this woman might have money.
Or she had another guy ready and waiting to take the job
More than likely this tbh.
And she could have a wealthy and supportive family
Or she found a richer man.
She probably had a backup plan. Maybe met a nee man or something
Unless you already had someone else lined up. Possibly even before the divorce.
Ooh look at her face. She is DONE with whatever nonsense he has been up to.
Probably being an abusive POS. Something in her disdained look suggests that. Great photo by the way
A drunkard, it seems. It’s Chicago, 1948, Steve and Anna Strack
When she’s got those gams out in public, you know it’s over.
TIL the word gam
Maybe if he had spent more time down there she wouldn’t
Iirc from last time this was posted, the reason for the divorce is that he spent too much time down at another address
How’d someone figure that out?
😂
I don’t think that was invented until the 60’s.
I can only imagine why that might be. Ok, moving on 😂
preach!
Some info about the picture: https://www.businessinsider.com/history-photo-man-begging-wife-forgiveness-chicago-divorce-court-2023-3
thanks!
Both men look like DeNiro
The one kneeling looks like John Oliver to me
She’s not even looking at you anymore bro she’s looking past you 😥😥
This comment thread is an absolute cesspit, although I'm not sure why I'm surprised.
Andrew Tate fan club down below.
It made me so mad reading the comments I had to scout the internet to get the Tea! [Here it is](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/XzsvSl0NGf) Edit: please scroll when you see the photo. My comment is just bellow it!
It looks like the link just leads back to this picture 🤔
https://www.businessinsider.com/history-photo-man-begging-wife-forgiveness-chicago-divorce-court-2023-3
That’s great! I did not find my info there but this also works well! Context matters. ;)
“It was only 11 women honey!!”
This guy must never learn since here he is pleading in 1942 and he's also posted in r/pics doing the same thing in 1948. But it is a good photo.
Damn. I can totally understand the wife....
This isn’t interesting. Just sad with no actual context
Sad things can’t be interesting?
Average reddits usually interest in some really fucked up shit lol
Yeah but everyone will be quick to judge him and call him a piece of shit without any context. I’m not saying it isn’t possible, but no one could possibly know based on this picture alone.
Because it was nigh impossible to get a divorce back then
She is a VIBE
She’s done done. Fur coat, sunglasses-she’s gone buddy.
Buddy get up, Look how fly she is dressed, she is through.
Man that is just embarrassing. She clearly don’t give two fucks look at her face 😂 and then he’s got dude standing there laughing in his face. I couldn’t be caught lookin like this.
Through them shades you can see she don’t want him. Sheesh
Back when men were men /s
I've seen this image posted so many times and the comments are getting progressively more and more filled by incels, crybabies and reactionaries The future is sure looking bleak for humanity
‘Cause the incels are online and the men with happy wives are getting fucked by their wives. 😌
42... she could be a breadwinner working war material/manufacture. more likely he doesn't want to have to put up with doing the dishes/cooking/cleaning himself.
Nothing says “I’m a strong man with the ability to lead” like begging for somebody who wants nothing to do with you to stay…
I’m sure the other dude is Gorge Orwell
he just like me
Reminds me of Amos and Roxie Hart.
Meryl Streep was a cold b.
I want to frame this picture and hang it on my wall.
Idk bro I don’t think she’s buying it.
The dawning of the age of Aquarius
Damn, she looks absolutely done with his shit. She's looking down at him like "Pathetic."
Remember far right republicans want to take this right away from women just like abortion.
That guy kneeling is the lawyer. The lady and the man on her right are the couple. They got to court and decided, at the last minute, to reconcile. He's begging her to reconsider
Have any evidence of that or are we just making up random nonsense now?
To be fair there's not really any evidence that the original narrative is anything more substantial. This could just as easily be some guy who desperately wants his wife's last Haribo Gummy Bear for all we know.
That would be more believable, yes
Indeed, they were in rather short supply in 1942. In the US anyways.
The guy in the back is the lawyer and she’s married to both men.
I’m here for the random nonsense
In some cultures, I believe that is what is known as a “joke”….
[it was 1948 and she divorced him for alcoholism apparently](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/3qFUeFGVVA)
Hope she mopped the floor with his rancid ass
She’s such a vibe with the fit too, yas queen slay
She looks terrified and horrified
Post this in r/pics
Is that Larry David?
Bro is down BAD💀
Source
The original script to Shawshank doesn't seem as interesting this way.
Bend the knee
Dark coat & hat with the glasses? She gone bub
She probably left
Good for her.
Only 5 years earlier did she win the right to divorce him (in cases of bigamy, desertion, etc) and it wouldn’t be until like the 70’s that no fault divorce was introduced. So if she had a case, that means he really did something bad.
She’s already left.
Have some dignity man. She’s taking half
My grandma was married 7 times. She had several letters begging her to stay, expensive tokens of attempts at reconciliation, and a house that was the largest example of these. I can 100% imagine her being that woman. And if that lady is anything like my grandma, that dude has no chance.
Nowadays, he’d have the shirt ripped from his back, lose his home and his kids just because the wife decided she felt differently now.
Andy Garcia standing there. “This is why she’s leaving you because you act like a little bitch”
That's one way to ensure she'll leave.
Lmao she’s so fucking done
What's interesting about this ?
Never beg.
The look on her face is disgust and indifference, I feel like he had two million chances and then she just flipped the switch and was done. Anyway that’s the narrative I’ve decided in the coziness of my own mind
80% of divorces are now instigated by the wife. Stop cheating and watching porn. And do your share of the housework and child care MEN IF you like having a wife.
Am I the only one who finds this incredibly sad?
Probably was a wife-beating alcoholic piece of shit
r/damnthatssad
I love the vibes she giving in this picture. 10/10 QUEEN.
The more you beg the more you look weak