School ends early at 10:30am today and I asked if papa's ok that we all go fetch Renee from school(instead of her coming back on school bus) and we went for a brunch , :).
We had wanted a Macdonald's breakfast(Renee refused tim sum) but as we were late from running some work errands, we had to do with an early lunch instead.
2 'not so nice' incidents occurred thereafter.. 1st, Renee almost lost her mobile phone! Fortunately, we managed to recover it - an old nice couple had found it and answered the call we made to its number, phew...
We were heading back from Bukit Timah Plaza(where we usually go to buy our groceries) when the 2nd unpleasant incident occurred. A Caucasian lady wanted to enter the elevator we were on, just as the door was about to close. Although there was still enough space for her and her trolley, it would nevertheless, be very cramp for everyone. I moved in as much as I could, whilst pressing onto the button to hold the door for her. But my, this was one rude lady! She obviously had seen our trolley, 'cos she paused, just that mere seconds before she decided to burge in regardlessly. She pushed her trolley harshly in and it hit Rachel's legs! Without a simple thanks to me for holding the door, she didn't even apologise to us when she knew that her trolley had hit Rachel(her facial expression told us that she knew!)! It was only after papa and I had uttered "my goodness" that she said, unapologetically, "sorry legs", GEEZ! You call this an apology? You bet, anyone would be angry at that! Anyway, guess what she did?...
Rude Lady : "I didn't see her", *period*
Papa(upset): "You can't see her? are you blind?"
Rude Lady : "Well, she seems ok, isn't she?"
Papa : "She's only a baby, you should have been more careful. What if I banged onto your tummy and say sorry tummy?"
Rude Lady : "Well, I apologised, didn't I? Are you gonna just stand here and shout or you wanna move on" (mind, we didn't even raise our voice, let alone 'shout' as she'd claimed)
Wah, that was really too much! I really almost flared : "your apology wasn't sincere at all! you're such a rude person!" and she retorted, facing me she said "you could have moved in more" and papa told her it was already so cramp and I reminded her "I was trying to hold the door for you!". At this point, she just kept quiet but showed us a very unhappy face and acted all high almighty, like she's the queen and we were the ones in the wrong, my goodness.
Papa muttered, but still audible(that's the purpose anyway) "all these angmos... so uncultured" and I quickly added "exactly, wonder why they're here". Now, such incidents really tell us, it's not why we Singaporeans do not welcome foreigners(whichever country they come from), it's them who made it difficult for us to accept them. Just look at their attitude, their behaviour towards us and we are the lawful/rightful citizens of this country! Even after we gave way to them, gracefully... Honestly, if they're unhappy about not getting their hauty way here, we would all be much happier if they do not stay...
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