The story of the VAP
Yesterday, I went to watch 2046 with Wayne, despite us both having so much work to do. It was... depressing, something like tragic all wound up and contained in every bit of the 130 minutes. Some bits make you go "huh??" as is typical of WKW films but then you watch the whole thing, and you remember his other films and you think about the way he usually says what he wants to say and then it's "hmm...." and then it's "oh." Heh. :P
But that's not exactly the point of this post.
We always read about it in the papers or magazines - there are increasing numbers of Singaporeans who are closet cases of depression, anger etc, complete with statistics and what not. Then it happens to you in real life and that's nothing like what you read at all.
I was at the food court at Plaza queuing for food and there was this guy who was one person ahead of me in the queue. When he got his 2 bowls of soup, he complained that the soup came with the little pieces of fried onions and pieces of spring onions when he specifically asked for none. So the shopkeepers took out the bowl and offered to change it. While he was waiting, the girl after him got her order in the meantime and left. So I moved up the queue (on his right) and reached across him (on his left) to get a tray while waiting for my food. He looked at me and said something like "Hey I was fucking here first ok?" I froze and thought, "What did I do?" And then I realised he was one of those VAP - very angry people. He was very unhappy that his soup had onions in it, even more unhappy that other people after him were getting their food while he, being first, was still waiting. So at this point, he promptly asked the shopkeeper, "I'm going to get mine first right?" Yes, he eventually got his order before me but it came back with the spring onions (in Chinese, the same word can apply to both the brown and green stuff). He got tired of waiting again, so he just left with his orders. 2 seconds later, his girlfriend came back with the bowl and demanded the spring onions be taken and he followed right behind saying that there was a strand of hair in his bowl and demanded his money back, saying that he wasn't going to eat there anymore and walked off in a huff, girlfriend hot on his heels.
I told Wayne when I got back to the table and one of the first things he said, "Why are you always getting into this kind of situations?" *bewildered grin* I wonder why myself actually. Oh well.
THE END.
But that's not exactly the point of this post.
We always read about it in the papers or magazines - there are increasing numbers of Singaporeans who are closet cases of depression, anger etc, complete with statistics and what not. Then it happens to you in real life and that's nothing like what you read at all.
I was at the food court at Plaza queuing for food and there was this guy who was one person ahead of me in the queue. When he got his 2 bowls of soup, he complained that the soup came with the little pieces of fried onions and pieces of spring onions when he specifically asked for none. So the shopkeepers took out the bowl and offered to change it. While he was waiting, the girl after him got her order in the meantime and left. So I moved up the queue (on his right) and reached across him (on his left) to get a tray while waiting for my food. He looked at me and said something like "Hey I was fucking here first ok?" I froze and thought, "What did I do?" And then I realised he was one of those VAP - very angry people. He was very unhappy that his soup had onions in it, even more unhappy that other people after him were getting their food while he, being first, was still waiting. So at this point, he promptly asked the shopkeeper, "I'm going to get mine first right?" Yes, he eventually got his order before me but it came back with the spring onions (in Chinese, the same word can apply to both the brown and green stuff). He got tired of waiting again, so he just left with his orders. 2 seconds later, his girlfriend came back with the bowl and demanded the spring onions be taken and he followed right behind saying that there was a strand of hair in his bowl and demanded his money back, saying that he wasn't going to eat there anymore and walked off in a huff, girlfriend hot on his heels.
I told Wayne when I got back to the table and one of the first things he said, "Why are you always getting into this kind of situations?" *bewildered grin* I wonder why myself actually. Oh well.
THE END.
Labels: An old life.
posted by raggedee_ann at 10:19 AM
1 Comments:
i suppose i should feel pity for a VAP, prob being a bit of 1 myself.
but NAH. maybe he isn't a VAP. maybe he is just a NSEW kinda guy (NSEW = no social etiquette whatsoever). Honestly if I had been in tt queue I wouldn't have been quite so nice.
War of the VAPs! *rrrawwwwllll*
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