June 07, 2004
Ugly People
Such 
is the state of my (very boring) life that I haven't had an entry in more than a week. Apart from the Mauritius trip, there wasn't much to talk about. More on the Mauritius trip later but first, some stuff to rant about.
One of the perks of my job is that occasionally I get free tickets for concerts, performances and/or movie screenings. Over the weekend, I was lucky enough to get some tickets for a screening of the latest Harry Potter film, and the organisers also threw in lunch and arcade games for free prior to the screening. (In my defence, it has been over two years since I last accepted any free stuff. Oh and btw, the new HP film is great!!)
Anyhow the word "free" seems to bring out the worst in people. At lunch, the guests were ordering tons of food simply because it was free. Worse still, some guests even ordered food to go. Come on! Just 'cos it's free doesn't mean that you should take the chance to stock up on next week's entire dinner menu! Grr...
My already-slightly-sour mood was not improved at the video arcade, where over-protective parents and snotty kids were the order of the day. First, my sister and I were queueing up for one of the find-5-differences-in-a-photo machines. There were 4 machines and every single machine was being hogged. The people playing simply kept putting in more tokens, even though we had been waiting for quite a while. And the worst case was this one mother, who was playing with her (6 year old?) daughter - the kid would bang on the touch-screen whenever she couldn't spot any differences and, as a result, kept dying rapidly. Instead of teaching her daughter how to play, the mother looked at us and said "Oh it will be a VERY long wait, this is the only game she likes to play" and went off to get more (free) tokens. Man, if you're going to play the damn game, at least teach your kid how to play.
Then, there was another mom, who was playing a memory game with her son, probably about 7 years old. And with every game, instead of letting him play, she would grab his hand and direct him to the right cards. If that's the case you might as well play yourself right? How that kid is ever going to learn anything, I do not know.
Other examples:
1) The GROWN man who hogged another machine and refused to let anyone else play.
2) The 3 snotty kids who hogged 2 machines even though there was a queue behind them.
What is with these kids and their horrible parents?!!? Don't they know it's basic, common courtesy to let other people have a turn? So as a result, these kids will grow up into brats who don't understand how to share and will go on to teach their own kids the same thing. These people should be sterilised.
Dumbasses.
Anyway, we were allowed to keep our tokens, so I will go back another day. When there aren't any snotty kids/kiasu Singaporeans/people who hog machines and keep playing because it's free.
One last thing: incredibly, there are still people around who don't know how to use an escalator. Here's a tip - when you're on an escalator, and there are people behind you, MOVE AWAY from the escalator once you get off instead of standing there talking. If you refuse to move, don't glare at me for stepping on your shoe. You should be glad the whole line of people didn't fall on you instead. Dumbass.
Posted by scrabbyfoo at June 7, 2004 10:30 AM