Lunch time. I queued up at the only cash desposit machine at Hang Seng Bank’s head office. 4 people (chick A, big guy B, chicks C and D) ahead of me.
Then C and D started giggling to each other. They were amused by A at the machine inserting HK$100 notes one by one. B was quite annoyed but didn’t say a thing.
I moved up to A (who was on the phone), pointed at the big sign on top of the machine saying “30 notes at the same time” in Chinese and English, and said to her, “Miss, you can stick you notes into the machine all at once.” She inserted her remaining notes into the machine, concluded her transaction quickly and left.
C and D found A’s ignorance so amusing they couldn’t stop babbling about it.
I thought to myself, hey B you moron you could have informed A but you didn’t and allowed A to kill 3 minutes of your life, and C and D you two morons who prefer to be amused in exchange for 3 minutes of your miserable lives. You three people are just as stupid as A.
Then I thought, hey I should have explained to these people why they should have informed A so they won’t make the same mistake again in the future, for common good.
I did not. I failed miserably. I am just as moronic as any of them. Lesson learned.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Toby // Aug 2, 2005 at 11:53 pm
What’s the rush in the first place?
If your life is so miserably short, then you just wasted 3 more mins or so to blog this story.
2 tin_the_fatty // Aug 3, 2005 at 12:47 am
I chose to blog this. I enjoy blogging.
I didn’t choose to be stuck at the queue, delayed unnecessarily. I don’t enjoy standing in a queue.
3 James // Aug 3, 2005 at 4:26 pm
I wouldn’t have known what the 4th person ahead of me is doing in an ATM line, and would probably just go to another ATM or come back to it after whatever else I have to do at the time. Unless we were already interactively communicating in a friendly fashion, I have given up on straightening things out with local strangers in non-violent ways.