4/12/2003

An unfortunate lady friend of mine was travelling on the train, lugging huge bags of stuff and had no place to sit. So like a fat ballerina awkardly doing her pointe, she unsteadily balanced herself with the bags in the crowded train. Just like all drama serials which have to feature the vehicle lurching forward suddenly and the passenger falling onto the opposite sex followed by blooming love, the train jerked. Unfortunately, unlike the blooming romance that was to follow, she stumbled and accidentally stepped on a man's toes. Albeit apologizing profusely, the man threw her a dirty look (he shouldn't have because he looked dirty and ugly enough) and said to her, "Are you clumsy or are you having problems balancing yourself?"
She was fuming mad as she had already apologized so she deliberately apologized loudly again to make sure that he heard it.

Like a dormant volcano, she suppressed the ugly words from forming on her lips. She was tempted to say: Are you deaf or are your ears just having problems working properly?

When he was about to alight the train, her friend piped in, "It's because of people like you that the Tourism Board has difficulty attracting tourists". Indeed, she is right. It's because of these dumb asses which give this country a bad image.

I would have retorted back to that man if I were my friend with these few lines:
Are you dumb or do you not understand the word "Sorry"
There is a saying "never step on a sleeping dog", do you happen to fall into the animal category?
Roses are red, violets are blue. Rabid dogs bark, so do u.
In reply to his question: Oh yes, I have problems trying to figure out where my center of gravity so that i can balance myself. OR Oh yes, I am clumsy but at least that beats being rude like u. OR I am having problems calculating the pull of gravity and trying to figure out the force needed to reist this pull so I am sorry if your foot seems to be the source of this gravity pull.

Such scums of a bag are surely not needed in this country. These people really have no right to be arrogant when their behaviour resemble that of primitive cavemen. I can visualize such people as unevolved apes dressed in tuxedos, trying to act in a sophisticated way. Perhaps a better label to describe such creatures would be "low life".