Thursday, November 17, 2005

Hectic past past few days, from preparing to return to the dreaded mass of concrete and bricks, to standing/shouting/selling at the Singapore Expo Taste Asia Pacific @ Singapore exhibition and I am pooped. Not literally, but tired. Try standing the whole day, that'll get you sore but there are things worse than that. It's the people(read: certain caliber of aunties) that get on your nerves. Take a few classic examples translated from chinese, the traditional medium of communication for aunties other than Hokkien and Cantonese and whatnot.

Me: Miss, want to try our fruit candy?
(We have to address them like this. It's not a matter of choice but a matter if they suddenly turn off because they don't face up to reality. And they think you're being cheeky.)

Auntie 1: What? Free one?

Me: Yes. It's low sugar and-

Auntie 1:*Takes a handful and walks off in a matter of seconds*

Okay. Samples are, as the name suggests, to try and sample, no grouses there. But can at least have the decency to take a few and not a freaking handfull. Why take so much? Just because it's free? Free doesn't automatically give one the right to snatch as much as one can hold and walk off.

Speaking of free, a certian mentality is present in them as they scour the site for sales and FREE gifts. Personally, I've got nothing against free gifts. Really, actually I quite enjoy it when I get free gifts(with some substantial value of course). With that said, let's take a look at the next example then.

Me: So that's one packet of Guiling Gao(Something made from tonics brewed in a turtle's shell and then crushed into powder before being made into gelly. Sounds disgusting but that's the way I think it's made)?

Auntie 2: Buy this got give what?

Me: Oh, this is very cheap already, no free items.(Price is like SGD$2.00+)

Auntie 2: WHAT? No free gift? How come!

The thing is dirt cheap and you still want a free gift? What is the company going to earn? Or what am I going to earn, to say the least. Another thing is asking if everything else can be given with the item bought.

Auntie 3: *Picks up packet of cookies* What's this? Buy get free?

Me: No no. That one need to buy one.

or this

Auntie 4: Eh, I buy 2 leh. Can cheaper?

Me: This 1 very cheap liao. Already discounted you see.

Auntie 4: HOW CAN LIKE THAT! I BUY 2 LEH!

People buy 5 also didn't ask for a discount and you just buy 2 and you complain about having no discount? Where's you manners! Oh I forgot, Aunties. Should have known. Anything that is in packets and lying on the table automatically means free gifts? What kind of logic is that? Is our kiasu-kiasee, everything must have/everything must top image coming from this type of people? Figures the attitude was brought over from the Great Depression. Haha. Super kiasu aunties. Imagine the next generation of Super kiasu aunties(meaning my generation), would we turn out the same way and have our kids sniggering at our behaviour?

I wouldn't want to.








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Posted by melvin at 6:26 PM