My intention of creating this thread is to bitch about seemingly clueless people I have come across. This may be attributed to lack of education, awareness, exposure or whatever. I'll start off with a couple of examples:
1) The Mind Reading Elevator - I used to work in a 15 story building and whenever I enter the elevator to go up, I usually just head straight to the back. This is because I'm on the highest floor and I usually can't be bothered with pressing the button until I'm further up. So anyway there was this particular day that I entered the elevator and performed my usual routine of going straight to the back. In the lift was a Malay woman who was standing right in front of the buttons. After the elevator doors had closed, I was puzzled as to why it wasn't moving. I noticed that the woman had not pressed any of the buttons. I then reached forward and hit the no. 15 button. She then came up with one of the most baffling remarks I've heard to date. She said, "oh mesti tekan punya ah?".
2) Escalatorphobia - I had just arrived at immigration to get my passport dont. In front of me were a middle aged (i'm guessing 35-40) couple. As we were about to proceed up the escalator, they stopped for a good 10 seconds as though a set of steps were miraculously going to appear beneath their feet and lift them up. They were holding up a whole lot of people until I tapped one of them on the shoulder and asked if they had decided to go up or not. They stepped aside upon realising that they suffered from escalatorphobia
I'm not trying to demean anyone as some people might have real problems, which is why I did not resort to name calling. I'm merely stating what I saw. Anyone care to share similar experiences?
1) The Mind Reading Elevator - I used to work in a 15 story building and whenever I enter the elevator to go up, I usually just head straight to the back. This is because I'm on the highest floor and I usually can't be bothered with pressing the button until I'm further up. So anyway there was this particular day that I entered the elevator and performed my usual routine of going straight to the back. In the lift was a Malay woman who was standing right in front of the buttons. After the elevator doors had closed, I was puzzled as to why it wasn't moving. I noticed that the woman had not pressed any of the buttons. I then reached forward and hit the no. 15 button. She then came up with one of the most baffling remarks I've heard to date. She said, "oh mesti tekan punya ah?".
2) Escalatorphobia - I had just arrived at immigration to get my passport dont. In front of me were a middle aged (i'm guessing 35-40) couple. As we were about to proceed up the escalator, they stopped for a good 10 seconds as though a set of steps were miraculously going to appear beneath their feet and lift them up. They were holding up a whole lot of people until I tapped one of them on the shoulder and asked if they had decided to go up or not. They stepped aside upon realising that they suffered from escalatorphobia
I'm not trying to demean anyone as some people might have real problems, which is why I did not resort to name calling. I'm merely stating what I saw. Anyone care to share similar experiences?