notasheep:
Tactless or thoughtless, yes, not stupid, though
I must admit that we (including myself) haven’t
been distinguishing between the two in this thread.
scared driver delight:
“someone once told me not to cross on a red
light because dina dimalchusa dina”
Actually, Reb Yaakov Kamenetsky wouldn’t even
cross against a red light on foot.
It seems there is a shita that all laws
of one’s country must be obeyed to the letter.
Poster:
That wasn’t necessarily stupid. It might have been
stupid to expect your father to do it, but maybe he
asked around about him first.
GG [Golder(‘?)s Green, right?] yekke:
He might have meant that it was a pleasure to
be able to do chessed for your grandmother,
and your grandfather might have been
joking in a way that’s common on the Coffee Room.