The selfish, the stupid, the wierd & the old

The past week has opened my eyes to people displaying the above 3 traits. Firstly on my way to work one sunday afternoon, as i go through the single lane 2 way street beside Bugis village there was this car that selfishly put on its hazard lights, stopping just outside a carpark entrance. Since its single lane either way and outside a carpark entrance, it created such a big bottleneck that stretch hundred of metres. As I passed that car i saw this mid-age auntie shading 4-D/Toto tickets in the car, oblivious to the chaos she caused, gave her a loud horn but she was too engrossed. I swear I wanted to confront her if i wasn't running late that day due to an earlier downpour, though such selfish acts rarely affect me since i'm on bike but it totally irks me.

So on another day also on the way to work, traveling along ECP, I saw the stupidest use of technology. First everyone knows its an offense to use an handphone while driving, but using hand-free is okay. As its name suggests, it helps you by removing the need to use your hand, that's why its called hands-free, but this driver happily use his hand to hold his hands-free, then wad's the diff from holding a handphone? maybe if he get caught he got an excuse since he really did use hands-free. Maybe its time he invest in better hands-free.

Then this wierd old man came to the library one day with his young granddaughter(presumbly, i dun suppose he's a paedophile). So an unfortunate thing happened to him such that the library's security sounded when he walked past and the security guard did his normal procedure of asking the old man to have his books checked at the customer service counter. Suddenly the wierd old man flared up and asked wad's wrong, saying he did not steal anything, creating a ruckus in the library. So the nice librarian explained that sometimes the books have a problem in the security chip but he apparently gave no heed, kept insisting he did not steal and stuff. So when the librarian finally resolve the problem with the books, the old man scolded the security guard useless, finally ending this 'drama'. Well the thing is he wasn't giving the little girl a good example and there wasn't really any need to shout to prove your innocence.

Finally we come to the old man who also visited the library on a nice weekend sitting on the sofa at our exhibition. Then he got up and asked me if i worked here, so i said yes(i tot he meant the exhibition), so he asked the chinese travel guide he borrowed has anything abt germany. But before i could said anything, he started telling me abt his life story, his father was a farmer and could only allow him to go to either an English or a Chinese school, thus he only knew english while his brother only knew chinese, unlike his sons who are studying in US who could learn both languages....blah blah blah. After answering his few questions, he started saying his wife only knew chinese so need a chinese travel guide cos they intend to visit Europe since he's sick of China.... blah blah blah, and he finally left, at last!

What an interesting week.