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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Lifts.

Yes, let's talk about lifts today. Our amazing invention which has allowed many to live high high up (in our homes) without having to sweat and pant all the way up there.

So, when is it that the lift will not be used?
(a) When it breaks down (duhz).
(b) When it becomes a sewage corner.
(c) By acts of inconsiderate people.

I happen to come across lifts that were due to (b) and for Mr Soh, both (b) and (c).

Scenario (c):
Mr. Soh waited for a long while for the lift. But it was constantly at the 4th floor. There weren't signs of work nor neighbour moving house. Puzzled and irritated (you most probably would feel that way), he climbed to the 4th floor.

There were 2 malays "hogging" the lift. One stood in the lift, the other stood by the door, happily chatting away. Perhaps their sense of urgency differs from the mass public huh.

Soh looked at them, they looked back. Either they are in total oblivion to their inconsideration, or they just carry out their daily lives in such unbashness and audacity.

That being said, let me present to you 2 course of actions.
(i) Keep staring, or tell them about their inconsideration, but risk getting a non-amiable response, e.g. argument or a fight, especially since they are non-chalent and think that they have every right to do what they deem fit.

(ii) Pretend that you saw a pair of retards, and walk away. Then help "spread" the word about the 2 model citizens to everyone else.

The older generation would advise you to practice (ii). In chinese, they call it 明哲保身. In today's society, this may be termed cowardice. Which would you choose?

I would say, probably i will say something, provided i know them well enough.

Scenario (b):
Brownish polka dot designs splatter outside the lift landing, within the lift, and on the floor, with a pungent smell perpetuating the every corner of the void deck. You might think that it was a dog. But apparently not. The amazing thing was that the 2 lifts which were decorated were FAR apart from each other, like stand alone lifts in the same block.


Maybe that person buay tahan and decided to share his/her agony with everyone else in the same block. But I thought that maybe the artist could have chosen a healthier spot to shit, say the bushes if it was really really really unbearable. At least the plants could have some nutrients...Pity the cleaner, residents who bore the brunt of his/her act. But then again, such things are hard to say. Perhaps a CCTV could tell the story better- whether to emphatize or shame the person.

by xiaojia at 10:46 PM |