Local resentment at foreigners....get a life

[JR8]

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I had a strange encounter recently in Tampines Mall waiting for lift around midnight (escalators are off already): father (around 50 yo) and son (around 20 yo). Both are trying to squeeze in an overcrowded lift, but there is a dilemma: only one of them can fit in without overloading the lift.
Son is backing off, father yells at him to come in, overload signal, son is backing off, father yells to come in ... the loop keeps going for some time.
Nobody in the lift wants to get out and "satisfy" the father at his/her own expense.

A kiasu-spiral

Father thinks: I can't get out, if I do I'd lose face.
Father says: Come on son, try again!
[The lift-overload alarm rings]
Father thinks: Now we have a situation, if I get out now I'll lose double face.
Father says: Come on son, give it another go!
... [repeat]

[Finally the son takes the initiative, that his father's ego would not consider; the son uses the stairs]

Father: [stone-faced look]: <Thinks> I have not lost face. I have not lost face. I have not lost face. Why is that girl behind me giggling? I have NOT lost face!

[morenangpinay]

I think we all ought to pitch in and buy Sergei a can of Bixby Green body paint to just complete the picture.

On second thought make that Lou Lou Ferrigno green.

this must be the reason why he cant get a taxi.. wonder if sergei has been called up for avengers yet lol

[JR8]

this must be the reason why he cant get a taxi..

Yeah makes sense, the drivers know that if they go 'the long way', Sergei is going to get angry, really angry.

[nakatago]

I think we all ought to pitch in and buy Sergei a can of Bixby Green body paint to just complete the picture.

On second thought make that Lou Lou Ferrigno green.

this must be the reason why he cant get a taxi.. wonder if sergei has been called up for avengers yet lol

His buddy, Anthony, was busy making his movie.

[movingtospore]

I may be wrong, but what's wrong with able-bodied people using lifts? For example, I want to go to the 5th floor of a mall to run my errands or to catch a movie (cinema complex is usually at the top floor of a mall). Instead of going round and round up on escalators, I can just pop into a lift that will take me straight up.

And some malls have a very weird way of placing escalators at opposite ends of the mall, which makes everyone walk the entire length of the mall just to get up one floor.

But if I see those on wheelchairs, are old, or with strollers, I'd definitely let them take the elevators first.

And this is what finally caused me to crack after a year here. The honeymoon period is over haha

I now have no patience for people who cannot line up in a civilised manner at lift (elevator what's that? ) and push in front of me when I have my 2 year old daughter in the pushchair (stroller what's that? )

I went ballistic in Fair Price on Saturday. You should have seen the faces on the people in the lift as I ranted from outside. They must have been praying for the doors to close faster!!

I was never so glad as when my kids were out of strollers here. That is the one thing that bugged me the worst here. Empty escalator to the left, packed elevator in front and a pile of locals to lazy too take the long way round so that wheelchairs and strollers can use the lift. I asked someone to get off once so another stroller could get on. He did - he was so shocked someone said something.

[Addadude]

On the topic of strollers, it really p!sses me off when impatient parents use their strollers (with their obviously terrified kid helplessly strapped inside) as a battering ram to force their way through crowds of people. And believe me I've seen plenty of expatriate parents doing this too.

[movingtospore]

On the topic of strollers, it really p!sses me off when impatient parents use their strollers (with their obviously terrified kid helplessly strapped inside) as a battering ram to force their way through crowds of people. And believe me I've seen plenty of expatriate parents doing this too.

Yes but what else are you supposed to do when people just won't get the F&*k out of the way?

[zzm9980]

(with their obviously terrified kid helplessly strapped inside)

I assure you my daughter is laughing and having a blast as we weave and wedge ourselves through parkway

[Brah]

Hey, wasn't there a "Graciousness Campaign" just last week?

[Brah]

I may be wrong, but what's wrong with able-bodied people using lifts? For example, I want to go to the 5th floor of a mall to run my errands or to catch a movie (cinema complex is usually at the top floor of a mall). Instead of going round and round up on escalators, I can just pop into a lift that will take me straight up.

And some malls have a very weird way of placing escalators at opposite ends of the mall, which makes everyone walk the entire length of the mall just to get up one floor.

But if I see those on wheelchairs, are old, or with strollers, I'd definitely let them take the elevators first.

And this is what finally caused me to crack after a year here. The honeymoon period is over haha

I now have no patience for people who cannot line up in a civilised manner at lift (elevator what's that? ) and push in front of me when I have my 2 year old daughter in the pushchair (stroller what's that? )

I went ballistic in Fair Price on Saturday. You should have seen the faces on the people in the lift as I ranted from outside. They must have been praying for the doors to close faster!!

I was never so glad as when my kids were out of strollers here. That is the one thing that bugged me the worst here. Empty escalator to the left, packed elevator in front and a pile of locals to lazy too take the long way round so that wheelchairs and strollers can use the lift. I asked someone to get off once so another stroller could get on. He did - he was so shocked someone said something.

Good for you both. Unfortunately this kind of thing has to happen but it has to happen.

The problem is thinking of them as adult adults, they're not, these types are adolescent children or adult children, and just need to be instructed, it's what they understand. They tend to follow. I got tired of waiting for them to wise up. A firm voice taking charge works every time.

Edit - sorry, I messed up the quotes. Twice. - corrected. mod

[Brah]

A kiasu-spiral

Father thinks: I can't get out, if I do I'd lose face.
Father says: Come on son, try again!
[The lift-overload alarm rings]
Father thinks: Now we have a situation, if I get out now I'll lose double face.
Father says: Come on son, give it another go!
... [repeat]

[Finally the son takes the initiative, that his father's ego would not consider; the son uses the stairs]

Father: [stone-faced look]: <Thinks> I have not lost face. I have not lost face. I have not lost face. Why is that girl behind me giggling? I have NOT lost face!

Too funny.

Here's what would have worked:

"Boy - get out or you'll cause your father to lose face!"


(everyone in the elevator nods to themselves...)

[x9200]

On the topic of strollers, it really p!sses me off when impatient parents use their strollers (with their obviously terrified kid helplessly strapped inside) as a battering ram to force their way through crowds of people. And believe me I've seen plenty of expatriate parents doing this too.

Yes, that's a common mistake also for the reason the strollers are typically lightweight. Unfortunately they don't allow, excellent for ramming purpose, shopping carts everywhere and they don't fit typical middle-size car.

[Steve1960]

On the topic of strollers, it really p!sses me off when impatient parents use their strollers (with their obviously terrified kid helplessly strapped inside) as a battering ram to force their way through crowds of people. And believe me I've seen plenty of expatriate parents doing this too.

My kid, my wife and I are terrified of the idiots paying more attention to their mobile phones than the direction in which they are walking. Too many times I have not been able to avoid such people due to the crowds and they have tripped over the pushchair.

Maybe that is what you have actually seen. I have never seen a parent here using a pushchair as a battering ram, local or foreigner. If I feel the battering ram urge I ask my wife to push the baby and I walk in front of them casting aside people in all directions as I go

[Brah]

I have never seen a parent here using a pushchair as a battering ram, local or foreigner. If I feel the battering ram urge I ask my wife to push the baby and I walk in front of them casting aside people in all directions as I go

Well I have - not a battering ram but somewhat less so.

While I always give way to those with baby carriages, I've seen some less than considerate of those around them with an air of entitlement. What they don't realize is that they come up on people quickly and unexpectedly and some of us don't see them out of the corner of our eye until we're right upon them.