Thursday, July 24, 2008

A funny encounter

I was having a meal at coffee express, silently eating up the chicken baked rice which doesnt really taste that good as there is a smell in the chicken chunks and the cheese is pretty much overwhelmed with its smell.

Then while I was reading a good book and sipping a glass of warm water, a mother about late 30s walked in with her younger daughter who is about lower primary. Then came her elder daughter, (probably about upper sec level) who joined them shortly. They sat behind me and started ordering.

"Your aircon is not chilling enough ah?"
"I wan sandwich blah blah blah, I wan soup blah blah blah"
"I wan toast in WELL DONE" the mother said
"Well done?" The Philippino waitress questioned
"Yes, well done, your other branch can do it for us, fully toasted" replied the mother
"and I want salad with only salad cream only, no other cream and I want, coffee with low skim milk" continued the mother.

Then came the servings and the waitress left

"Hello excuse me!" shouted the mother.

(waitress walked over and stood next to the mother)

"Smell it." said the mother
"Smell?" waitress replied
"Ya, smell the soup, smell it!" repeated the mother
"The soup..it has a bad smell" joined the elder daughter
"Can you change to a new one for us? The soup is smelly." demanded the mother.

(then when all servings are done, the mother called out to the waitress again)

"Are you the most senior one here?" asked the mother
"Yes, mdm" replied the waitress
"Can you tell your staff that he has some body smell which is unpleasant huh" said the mother
(the statement came abit too surprised for the waitress I guess)
"I know there is this place at Compass Point which sells XXX, he just need to put under this armpit for a few mins everyday and wash it off and the smell will be eliminated. I know cos my maid has this prob too" explained the mother
"er...oke..." replied the waitress
"Rememeber to tell him huh" reminded the mother

(then I requested for the menu again, ordered a sumatra coffee and apparently it is the "smelly" waiter who served me my coffee. Yes, the smell is unbearable I know, but with some courtesy, i smell and inhale more of my hot brewed coffee and continued reading my book.)

Given in the scenario above, I wonder she is too fussy with everything in life, or its me who are unconcern about others. And was she just merely fighting for her rights while I am just giving up mine by silently filling my stomach with the not very nice smelling chicken baked rice.

And will you tell someone so abruptly that he has a body odor? Probably she is just abit too blunt but hey, and how many of us actually tell someone a remedy to their problem which maybe, they themselves are looking for a solution too? :)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hee, I agree with you...

How many of us give remedy... For that, a thumb up...

However, the waiter even though smelly, is still a human... He also has his feelings... Thus it will be to put it in a unhurtful way... I believe...

Maybe, strike a conservation with the smelly waiter and tell him about her maid without telling him he has BO...