I swear…that half of KL population was all lining up at TGV KLCC this afternoon! Semua orang nak tengok wayang hari ni of all the days. Kecik besor tua muda Cina India Melayu Omputeh Pak Arab (including Malay males, at Friday prayers time tu gagah je berdiri dengan tiada keuzuran! Hee hee.) I would have liked to get to see The Pursuit of Happyness, but it’s only playing at 11.20pm. I don’t understand why a family show like that doesn’t get a reasonable show time, say…8pm ke. Silly.
Nak dijadikan drama hari ini…Ka Cher, meself and Booty were just entering the zig-zag (U-shape) queue when a lady tetiber sudah menyusup masuk under the line and potong garisan! I made a noise about it to Ka Cher with the hope that the lady would hear me as well. And so she did. And perhaps so…she waited for Ka Cher and me to get to her who was already standing behind the last person in the queue and let us take the spot before her.
She even gave us an excuse that she didn’t cut the line to actually cut the line. She just didn’t want to have to walk in loops to get to where she was. As though that ‘explanation’ wasn’t enough, she expressed her botheration to my making noise about her cutting the line. I was just about to thank her and was even about to understand her at that point. But instead, I said…”Dah bagi tu dah lah, jangan bising-bising pulak!”
Because I honestly would rather her cutting the line and be uncivilized about it, than giving a stupid excuse and still be uncivilized about it. Plus, why should I thank her for the spot that was mine in the first place? What if I hadn’t made noise? Would she have given us the spot?
I really thought…
“Eh, eh? Time out ek, tolong sikit! Yang you nak explain that you menyusup bawah line-guide so that you did not have to jalan pusing-pusing AND then still nak bising-bising ni apahal plak? Dah lines tu memang kat situ, in U or S-shape, to prevent people from doing what you just did lah pun. Ni mesti kes dah termalu and don’t know what to say. Sebab tu lah nasty macam nak menggigit jer.”
This little incident really occupied my mind for a while after. I couldn’t understand it myself, initially. But I know Enida well enough to say that I don’t like this kind of human-contact. Miscommunication, if you will – even with a total stranger. On one hand, I hate the thought that an opportunity to make a friend was lost in that little friction. I wish I could rub a little ‘niceness’ on a person like her.
On the other hand, it made me wonder if that lady had never seen a line-guide like the one at TGV KLCC. You know…the kind you find at banks, airports or post-office counters. What if everybody makes the same excuse that they cut lines so that they don’t have to move with the queue – or if they feel stupid to just follow order. I guess TGV would have to make movie-goers take numbers to buy tickets next.
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Hi Idham,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
Indeed, queue-ing up is perhaps the most basic proof of ‘civilization’, I think. Afterall, what I experienced was at a cinema. We were getting tickets to entertain ourselves at KLCC of all the places, for heaven’s sake. Not fighting for scarce ration at a refugee camp!
I have given up on writing or even thinking about the way people drive here. :o)
ps: Thank you!
🙂 hai there….could not help feeling what u felt …
of all human shortfalls…this one about potong line/ queue is one which get me to immediately resort to comfronting the individual. So far I have yet to encounter untowards or ugly incidences, for normally the person would smile with guilt and move to the back of the queue.
u did well in saying what u said.
ps: kitreena looks so adorable in the dress!
idham