Rudeness

Isolation has made me extremely crude and rude. Ironically, I am also more aware of rude people lately.
Normally, I am highly tolerant of annoying and rude people. But I decided to screw my karma today.

On my way down to Taka, this young man and I were stopped by certain teenagers. They were apparently doing a survey for MAS or something as their uniforms suggested. The man I was with looked fairly decent. He had a neatly styled hair, trimly shaved face and donned a nice green striped shirt.
"excuse me sir, are you a singaporean? I am doing a shopping surve--"
(alright, I agree, that wasn't the best introduction line. But the man's come back was fantastic)
"NO! GET AWAY!! I don't believe you guys. The Last time I did this, I lost 17k"



Let's take a moment to appreciate his statement. Firstly, they are doing a survey, not a damn lucky draw, not even a charity. I do not see any way in which a survey could cheat you anything more than your time. Secondly, 17K? Are you trying to imply that you are loaded? that you just happen to be rich enough to give 17K around to streetside charities (or tipping survey boys, GST inclusive) just like that? Even if you are truly that rich, you must one hell of a dumb nut to loose 17K on a street-side. Stupid Facade-hiding hypocrite.

Like I said before, I am usually tolerant of rude people. But I am highly highly intolerant of incompetent service. Let's take exhibit A, Driver X, for example.

Today, Bus Driver X of bus 'SBS585E' (not the real plate number) of 16 (not the real number either) arrived a mere 30 minutes late. This is considering very kindly the fact that the bus arrival interval time should be an average of 8 minutes.
After boarding the bus and riding a few stops, a rather lost tourist stumbled to the driver and asked where is Suntec City. (which was where the bus was) Meanwhile, a young lady spots the bus in a building slightly away and dashes towards the bus.

"excuse me sir, is this Sun-Tec City? I was wondering where is the stop for the opposite direction-"
" SUN-TACK CITY SUN-TACK CITY! WHAT YOU WANT??"
>> irritated, I budged in and gave the man the proper answer to his question and pointed where the bus stop was. The driver looks at me in a pissed-off face.<<
As the tourist gets off the bus, the lady arrives at the front door. However, he closes the door upon her. She desperately knocks hardly about 3 times. He instinctively looks at her before turning his head the other direction ignorantly and attempts to drive off.
>> even more annoyed. I slammed my hand against the ticket dispenser and pointed to the lady in distress. <<
He stopped and gave me an even more pissed-off expression.
In a feat of masculine display of prowness, he starts driving in sudden accelerating spurts, scaring the heck out of the passengers. In a another feat of annoyance, he starts horning excessively. A car is in front of the bus. HONK. The car stops for a yellow light instead of dashing across it. HONK. Another bus overtakes you. HONK HONK HONK.

I was lingering on the decision on whether to depend on public transport when I grow up or drive my own car today. This just made up my mind. I will learn how to drive and drive Jude around :)




btw. I know my dad probably reads this blog. idiot hacker.