In case you do not know what is my title about for today, let me interpret it for you. It means the following below.
"Granny said, 'I am hungry... help me, please'"
What do you think of this statement? Sounded awful and felt very pity right? You can try to imagining an old frail lady begging for food in a food stall. However, the story goes the other way and it occured TWICE.
One day in 1 Utama at the food court,
Me and Florence : * yum yum - enjoying our claypot mee and fried rice *
* an old lady holding something came to our table *
Old Lady : Help me, young man, buy this pen from me, so i can eat...
Me : err... no thank you, auntie... i am not interested...
Old Lady : Help me lar, this pen is RM5 only, i have not eat for whole day...
Me : err... sorry auntie, i'm really not interested in buying that pen...
Old Lady : You don't buy, I don't have money to eat lar... help me... I am hungry...
Me : *_*"" - started to feel guilty...
Old Lady : * she moves on to the next table *
Me : * i looked at my wife and then i looked at my plate of fried rice... damn i felt so GUILTY *
Me : Ok ok lar... i buy that pen from you lar...
* The old lady gone... missing... no where to be found *
After one month and forgotten, it happened again,
Me and Florence : * yum yum - having laksa and rojak mee *
* old lady appear at our table again *
Old Lady : Help me... buy a pen... so i can eat... please
Me : * gulp *
* she looked at my wife *
Florence : * Politely shook her head to refuse her *
Me : Sorry, I am not interested...
Old Lady : Help me... if you don't buy my pen... how can i buy food?
* she hunched forward and looked at our food, Yes, Yes, i am not joking, she did just that. She bend forward and looked at our food. No kidding! She really bend over to look at our food! Seriously... *
Me and Florence : * we looked at each other... dumbfound by her actions! *
Old Lady : * She walked to the next table *
Me : * I felt so bad and so GUILTY again! *
Me : Ayo... Can someone of her relatives do something about it? Really TBT!!!!
Now i am avoiding the 1-Utama food court. If can't i just try to finish as fast as possible and leave. It's not that i don't want to help strangers. She got one big box of pens on her left hand and one pen on her right hand to sell it. I know that even if i can give her RM10 for 3 pens, i think she will still continue to do her thing. For the last two weeks, i was felt so guilty. Then came second again.
Do you think i should buy something from old people when they come to my table?
PS: TBT - Tak Boleh Tahan
is sky the limit... will her relatives please go and help her... please!
PS: TBT - Tak Boleh Tahan
is sky the limit... will her relatives please go and help her... please!
4 comments:
haha those are the tactics they used la ... but talking bout gluttony guilt
there was this once i was at this food stall, greedily munching away when this old lady came to the food stall and asked how much is a plate of the chicken rice ...the boss in a very very lansi and rude way said the price ...
the old aunty counted the few ringgits she had, and looked at the chickens again before walking off, there i was eating chicken plus char siew plus this plus that and on toppof it another big rice add on ...
so iithought to myself, hey if that aunty is really really poor, the least i could do is buy her food rite ... but while i was doing all the thiking she walked off already ... i think she was like 1 ringgit or a few cents short only ...
but to think of it, maybe thats all she left or she need the money to go get a bus or something ...
sometimes stuff like this damn sad man ...
***sorry for the long comment
haha those are the tactics they used la ... but talking bout gluttony guilt
there was this once i was at this food stall, greedily munching away when this old lady came to the food stall and asked how much is a plate of the chicken rice ...the boss in a very very lansi and rude way said the price ...
the old aunty counted the few ringgits she had, and looked at the chickens again before walking off, there i was eating chicken plus char siew plus this plus that and on toppof it another big rice add on ...
so iithought to myself, hey if that aunty is really really poor, the least i could do is buy her food rite ... but while i was doing all the thiking she walked off already ... i think she was like 1 ringgit or a few cents short only ...
but to think of it, maybe thats all she left or she need the money to go get a bus or something ...
sometimes stuff like this damn sad man ...
***sorry for the long comment
earl ku : no prob... i pray the auntie won't come anymore... its so guilty-ing!...
This kind of thing shouldn't happen if we take care of the elderly. Once we reach year 2020, there would be lots of elderly people like our parents.
Please start caring people!
William...maybe we should start a chain of old folks home ;)
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