First run in with Singaporean “gangsters”
So I have been in Singapore for about a year so far. My social circle consists of expats, fellow foreign students and a few Singaporean classmates I’m chill with. So I’m not exposed to locals who are uneducated or just straight up stupid. This isn’t a hate post, I love y’all, I love how safe this country is.
Anyway, today, I had my first run in with local “gangsters”. I was at the train station and walked passed a 3 guys when suddenly one of them yelled “bang my brother aaah?”. Now I grew up in LA so i thought he was asking if I nailed his brother, to which I responded furrowing my brows in confusion saying “i don’t swing that way.”
The “gangster” then asked me if I’m “trying to be funny” and some other stuff I just couldn’t understand. His accent and grammar was just incomprehensible to me. So I asked him “do you need time to construct a sentence in your head before saying it? I can’t understand a word you’re saying”
Long story short, he got up in my face and asked if I have a problem, now I’m 27, i’ve spent 4 years in the military, having deployed to Afghanistan 3 times. I grew up in LA where I was exposed to real violence and street gangs locals here can’t begin to comprehend. So obviously this clown wasn’t scaring me one bit.
I said to him calmly “you’re looking like you’re in your late 30s. Nobody impressed. Just walk away, don’t give me a reason to take what little you have. There are 3 cameras pointing right at us. You wanna be hardcore go ahead hit me”
His friend starts saying some things in mandarin convinces him to walk away but as he walked away he starts insulting me in some dialect I can’t understand.
Majority of Singaporeans I’ve met are educated and courteous. These dudes just had me laughing on my way back to class.
My question is how do chill Singaporeans deal with losers like that?