Last weekend, I was queueing up to buy Roti Prata at a food court stall. There was a man ahead of me. He has been waiting for a while. The man walked up and asked how long more he had to wait, only to be told that there was 1 customer in front, but that person had ordered quite a few pratas, and hence he has to wait a longer time. The man immediately flew into a rage, and ranted "I don't care how many he has ordered! You told me it was 1 person in front of me, and it is not my problem that he ordered many! That is your business! But you made me wait for so long!"
I understand the man mistook that a shorter queue meant a shorter wait. But I do not understand this "Your business" and "not my problem" rant. What was he trying to express?
Last week I wrote about the 'silent' bus driver, and the equally silent and docile Singaporeans who got off the bus without given an explanation. This week, I saw the opposite. An angry Singaporean who got so mad that he did not get his pratas within 5 minutes, and acted like he has been cheated of his time.
Or was it bad communication again? That the cashier should have said that there was a large order before him, that he might want to come back later to collect his order.
Or do some Singaporeans like to rant? An innate frustration built over that handbag that whacked your back in the MRT, or the guy who stepped on your shoe behind the escalator queue without a sorry, or that boss who told you 'deliver no matter what..', or watching someone cut a queue of 10 people in NTUC (happened to me), and feeling like your lost your mouth momentarily and having imaginary mental rants thereafter.
Too upset to be civil?
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