I went shopping yesterday, during the Christmas holiday. This is the FIRST time I went shopping on Christmas day. I think it may be my last.
I think some Singaporeans can be quite crazy (yesterday, that includes hubby and me). The queue at payment counters were like.. 100-200 meters long - i think - i'm not good with guessing the length in metrics, but ok..imagine having to walk about 1 min, just to get to the end of the queue.
So, we went around in search of the shortest queue. Found it at the cosmetics level.
While queueing, there was this older (than me) chinese lady in front of me. Suddenly she was greeted by somebody who seems to be her ex colleague - a man, carrying a small boy. The man chatted with her, asking her how she was, and where she's working now.. blah blah blah.. yada yada yada.. AND he continued chatting with her as the queue moved along.
Now, I was thinking.. baik nyer some colleauges.. so concerned and boleh berbual panjang2 macam ni dengan an ex colleague.
Then, I'm beginning to wonder..bini dia ni, nanti tak marah ke nampak dia diri dengan perempuan lain tengah line up.. berbual panjang2.. sampai ikut jalan dengan queue semua?
The lady must be wondering the same thing, cause she asked,'where's your wife?' He said, she's probably shopping for her stuff. Then the lady told him.. the queue is quite long, he'd better start lining up for his wife. Then he said, 'let her finish everything she wants to get first'. and he continued chatting with her.
Sampai kat depan cashier, the wife suddenly appears! and said 'oh hi' and all that.. and asked if she could also PAY TOGETHER!.. CEEEEEH!!! ada udang sebalik batu rupanyer. After chatting with the guy nicely all along the queue, i guess the lady pun macam da tak boleh nak reject kan.. Sick.
Cutting queue like that, was not the worst part. It's the insincerity of his whole chat with her and the how-are- you crap. He was just making use of her.
He should have just told her his intention from the start. Or, he could have just queued up, i think there were only 10-20 people behind us in the queue when he first appeared.
What can I say.. there exists such a group of people.
4 comments:
cheh! saba jela!
itu la.. kalau tak sabar.. maybe da cakap terang2
"AH?? you talk to her from all the way back there, only so that you can pay with her ah?"
tapi tak baik pulak, drop his face-water
It irks me when people behave like that. Like you said, he could have just joined the queue. Shameless people like him should be ticked off by the cashier/salespeople and made to join the queue.
Btw, apa tu face-water? Normally, I hear people say water-face. You sengaja terbalikkan eh?
yara,
sengaja. reason :
I know, people always say 'water-face' = 'air muka' but.. i was just trying to put it in the 'correct perspective' - macam lah benda ni correct sangat in the first place.. haha.. But Anyway, macam kalau ommelayu kata bag plastik - in english, it's 'plastic bag'. Kalau air muka.. patut nya kan.. face-water. Itulah reason dia. :p
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