Petty Hate Never Dies: 1,700-Year-Old Furious Complaint About Grocer Recovered

Posted by on December 22nd, 2011
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Ever feel guilty about complaining? Sure the drive through clerk at Wendy’s forgot to remove the tomatoes from my Spicy Chicken sandwich, but do I really want to go back into the store?

And even worse, what if my friends call me cheap for requesting a new sandwich or even worse a refund? Is it worth the reputation as a skinflint to not pick off the tomato slice?

Well instead of complaining to a middle manager, why don’t you take your grievance to a higher authority: God. That’s what one fine citizen of the Roman city Antioch did when he cursed a random grocer in a 1,700 year old screed.

“O thunder-and-lightning-hurling Iao, strike, bind, bind together Babylas the greengrocer,” reads the beginning of one side of the curse tablet. “As you struck the chariot of Pharaoh, so strike his [Babylas’] offensiveness.”

Iao is an ol’ fashioned word for God.

So just remember, if you complain about service from a random food worker someone 1,700 years from now might find your complaint and then another person will make fun of you on a digital network inconceivable in your modern era.

[Live Science]

2 Responses to “Petty Hate Never Dies: 1,700-Year-Old Furious Complaint About Grocer Recovered”

  1. Anonymous Says:

    That’s awesome. I should start submitting all of my complaints on curse tablets. Let’s see Comcast dismiss an angry customer when he’s carrying a curse tablet.

  2. Anonymous Says:

    Iao is a varieny of Yahweh, the guy from the OT