I never thought I would post ever need to post this but damn am I mad. Maybe the word entitled is too strong here but i guess this uncle was unreasonable. Anyways here is the story
So if u have ever patronised the kopitiam square at sengkang, you will know how crowded the top-up kiosk gets during lunch/dinner time especially during a weekend. And what is worse is that the queue “format” always changes. Sometimes, people will be queuing from each kiosk and sometimes its just one queue that spilt when u r at kiosk. This is because the design of which they designed the place to top-up had really no thought put into it. Anyways, ye you get it, its messy and disorganized.
So today was the “one queue” format and everyone was forming a long queue to wait for their turn to top-up. I was in the queue too with my sister for about 3 mins. Lucky it was still early and the queue length was reasonable.
And then, yay it was finally our turn. When it was almost our turn, this random uncle (around his late 50s or early 60s, he was well-abled and able to communicate in english, so i doubt that he was that old or couldnt understand the scenario, sorry i judged him, but dont we all?) came walking from up to the side of the kiosks with his card in hand ready to top-up his card. I saw him look at the queue then the kiosk and i thought, “okay still normal, uk its normal for people to check out how the queue goes” and by now the queue was getting a bit long? Maybe about 10 plus people? Oh but what did he decide to do? You guessed it, cut in front of us… damn
Honestly, i am usually the person that goes… oh just another of those people… and just let the matter rest, but what happen next shook me and i think everyone there (especially my sister, lets not forget she exist)
After cutting the queue he looked around (obviously guilty), and i made eye contact with him. Normally it stops there, but i swear and i swore i saw a smug on his face (he obviously knew no one dared to speak up) and that just pissed me off. I wanted to wipe that off his face. So i just said out (in chinese, if that matters), as politely i could, because i really didnt want a conflict with him (ironic), “uncle, everyone is queuing, can u go queue and not cut the queue” then i signaled him to the end of the queue.
At first, he smiled and i was like “what a nice uncle”. Then he came out the queue “oh damn my faith in Singaporeans have been restored” but he started walking towards me and he tried to reason that he was going for the other kiosk not the one that seemingly everyone was queuing for (i guess he is a fan of the 2 queue format). Then i just said but everyone is queuing to top-up and that there is only one queue (limited to my ability in chinese, which i got a B for in h1 so its not bad but still terrible) so i couldnt argue more. But honestly i was just happy to have him out of the queue he cut and queuing (balance like things should be).
So people moved off during the process, so i took my place at where the uncle went off (ooh, but i queued ok) and then he got real pissed. He then exclaimed “you see, you also like that what?”
Woah lo and behold salty me turned around and said, “But uncle, I queued”. And he was not happy. He strutted behind me and planted himself there. Then he started saying smthg but i cant really remember what he said. Then at this point i just didnt want to aggravate the scenario cause i needed to get home to study for my a levels tmr (ik im typing this but i’d probably keep having this thought in mind to type it that i cant study, at least this will have me at rest) and i just told him that im sorry that i offended you and that ok if u wanted to just cut lah, u done wrong, i did my best, i really dont want to get into a fist fight, let have matters rest.
And at that point people around me were like trying to stop it, and ye i took the advice and just ignored him. Oh yes, my sister was still here and she was almost gg to cry, so i decided uk what for the best of everyone, lets just top our cards up and eat our dinner shall we?
Oh but no. Even though i didnt interact with him already be raised 2 very VERY interesting points up to argue with me.
He said, “how does your school teach you how to queue huh?” Which i nodded as a reply, im sorry that i am inept in school ok
Then he shouted at me, “they say fight for your rights, so im fighting for mine!” I was shook. A part of me wanted to turn around and argue but i just couldnt man.
Anyways, it ended like this and ye how do you guys feel about this? What would you have done? Were you thr? Did i do wrong? Idk anyways im just here to rant my anger away
TLDR: i awent to eat dinner and ate dinner but felt angry somewhr during the process of it but i ate anw cuz A levels and now im posting on reddit
Edit: hey ill reply to the comments after my chem paper tmr…