Sunday, April 13, 2008

The Universal Language

When you're in another country, do you act like you're superior than the rest of the locals there?
Do people adopt a holier-than-thou attitude just because their skin colour is white?
Or are people simply plain dumb because they're brunettes and past the age of 50?

We were on the road on Saturday night and it was perhaps 7-plus, 8pm.
It was dusk but there were still remnants of the daylight here and there.
Slivers of it trying to prolong their existence as long as possible amidst the encroaching night.

We were cruising along, rounding a bend & heading towards the Cavenagh Bridge.

And there was this ang moh, brunette, 50, big-sized.
She was attempting to cross the road to her male partner on the other side.
He had just hailed a cab.

We came by, so she quickly took a few steps back and got back up on the kerb and then.....
She started screaming at our car from where she stood on the kerb..
Ranting & waving her 3rd fingers at us.

Note. I said fingers. i.e. She was waving both her middle fingers at us.
Screaming like a mad bitch and glaring at us as we went by.

Felt like winding down the window & screaming:
"Si Ang Moh! KNN, you think this is your road ah?? Go back to that mother-f*cking country of yours and stop polluting my country with your stench!!!!!"

But of course these are always aftermath thoughts.
The whole incident lasted for only 10-15 seconds. Too little time to even react.

Ahboy's first reaction was "Wah Lau. Xiao."
And I fully agree. Hello?? There's no traffic light lor...and it's a road bend.
If you want to cross, do it quickly & carefully lah!! It's your own pasal if you wanna die in a foreign country in such a manner.

Oh by the way, she does not shave her pits.
It's horrible to be shown the finger for doing nothing wrong.
It's worse to be shown the finger, by a dumb woman with relatively hairy pits, for doing nothing wrong.

And oh, the 3rd finger.
How did it evolve to be a universal language?
I wonder....

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