Lately, My girlfriend has been crazy over Icy Mocha Soya at the Mr Bean Shop. Well, I was crazy once last time. I remembered my Mother bought home this drink and was exclaiming loudly saying ” BOY! Come Try This Drink, Very Nice One!!” She suddenly seemed to me like a small girl carrying some sweets home and like very happy about it.
Now its my girlfriend turn, every time we walk pass either Mr Bean or maybe jolliebean, She will be holding my hand tight and ask if she can buy Icy Mocha Soya from Mr Bean, or Icy Chocolate from JollieBean. She really makes me feel that shes super cute to the max. These are like the little things we do when we are out together.Seriously I Enjoy My Whole Time With Her.
Well, today was no difference, when she reached my Mrt station, the first thing she said was she wanted the Icy Mocha. Well, I expected it already, that’s why i waited for her down stairs the Mrt station rather than at the control station. She was excited about getting her cup of Icy Mocha Soya again, and also, as expected.
We entered the shop happily and ordered. Then my mood changed. Why? cause the lady who served us didn’t know how to make Icy Mocha Soya! How can that be? Okay, maybe she was new. Then she asked the head owner to do the drinks for us. Well, i was happy, cause finally someone knows how to make the drinks that we wanted. But then………. i realised the head owner was doing something for the other customer, and the customer was like 4 persons ahead of us. She was standing at the side corner of the shop and waiting. When she saw that the head owner was doing our Icy Mocha Soya, Her face instantly changed to a black face. Like Super Super black. After we gotten our Icy Mocha Soya then she got her things that she ordered. She didn’t even say thank you, she snatched the food over and stare at me when i was blocking the place where the spoons are.
Then my mood swing even more. She STARED AT ME. and then she make the TSK sound very loud. I was like, Wad the F*** is wrong with this woman. She can grow impatient cause the head owner was doing our food but not hers. But she could also walk up infront of us and tell the head owner that shes in a rush or something and request to do her food first. But She DIDN’T. I mean, if you are really in a rush, i would understand and also ask the head owner to do her food first, she shouldn’t even TSK me as if it was my fault!!!
i think people are growing more and more impatient and very rude. I am not pin pointing at all adults but some adults just do not have the basic courtesy. They just see teenagers and they tend to bully them like they think they are so big. What’s wrong with it? Their egoistic pride? I seriously think that not only children are to be taught to be polite, but also ADULTS.
Sometimes i just think that teenagers and children are much more polite that adults. Have you ever seen adults squeezing in the middle of the train when the train is packed? No. Its always the teenagers that will try to squeeze their way in. The adults will just stand there and block the way to the middle and create many ” hao peng you ( good friends in english) ( aka Ghosts.) ”. I just cant stand the way that adults sometimes blame us for not being polite.
Even in giving up seats. How often do adults give up seats to old people? I think its either the teenagers or children that will often give their seats up to the elderly.
So if you ask me, Are Adults MORE polite than teenagers?
You should know my answer.
Sadly, you will find that most Singaporeans are hard-pressed for time. Anything that they deem to increase the amount of time they spend in one place is an annoyance to them. Why do you think admen have a hard time trying to get a passer-by in Singapore? This is why. Every single road rage incident on the expressways during peak hours? This is why.
Some adults are rude because their parents never had the time to teach them proper manners. Please remember that current-day adults still spent their childhood with almost no guidance whatsoever. This is because Singapore was still pretty poor back then, and their parents were more focused on bringing enough food onto the dinner table to feed every member of the house. They had no time to teach their offspring on being polite, and I’m dubious as to whether they even had such knowledge in the first place.
The ratio of rude teenagers and rude adults are relatively even. Adults may exhibit rudeness in the form of their unwillingness to make space for others, but teenagers exhibit rudeness as well, in the form of them talking very loudly when they’re in a group and annoying everyone within a full kilometre’s radius.
Education has and will always be a slow process, and old habits are hard to erase. It is hardly surprising to see adults not making way for others because they’ve spent most of their lives not doing so. Eventually, these old habits will die out and be replaced, but do not expect yourself to see huge improvements in terms of conduct over the space of a decade.
By: Androgeos on May 15, 2010
at 12:41 am
I agree with Androgeos – politeness goes out the window the moment time is of the essence. Maybe we should all slow down for one week as a nation – might make a significant difference in the courtesy campaign.
By: theredpants on May 31, 2010
at 2:33 pm