After received about half a million forwarded emails urging me to update my Touch n Go (TnG) card (or else it will be ineffective by December), I finally went ahead to get it done at the nearest TnG office on Friday.

Since it was Friday and nobody actually work on Fridays, we (me and colleagues) took off earlier to avoid the lunch traffic and crowd, to the TnG office to upgrade our cards - in hope to settle off the whole thing earlier and go for a more relaxed lunch or something.

But to our astonishment, there were already a big crowd swamping the TnG office by the time we reached there. Almost like, 40 - 50 people and there’s only ONE counter processing all their requests. Amongst the sea of stinking crowd, stood one of our management level guy, of whom was one of my most loathed individuals on this planet. Oh, let’s call him Dildo for convenience’s sake.

“Goddamn, don’t these people need to work ?? It’s only 11.30am for fuck’s sake !” I uttered to my colleagues.

It was meant to sarcastically hint about why Dildo was there when he should be in the office at that hour. (let’s not question about why we’re there at that hour, shall we ? It’s a cynical world. When he’s an asshole, we’ll always find fault with him). But what can we do about it…. but to stop bitching, collect the queue number and to goddamn wait.

And so we waited. After about 5 minutes, Dildo bailed out from the office with a pissed look. Probably had some bowel complications or something. Half an hour later, he returned. But to his dismay, the queue had already gone past his number. Discontented, he stomped up to the counter and said …rather loudly… to the counter guy

Dildo : “The queue had gone past my number and I was away. Can you process my request first ?”

TnG dude : “So you weren’t here when the number was called ?”

Dildo : “No I was away.”

TnG dude : “I’m sorry sir, but you’ll have to retake a number for the queue again”

That was when the all of us witnessed Dildo threw his hands in the air, apparently wasn’t too happy with the fact that he’ll have to take another queue number again - because his number was forfeited when he wasn’t there. He shouted at the TnG guy

“WHAT IS THIS ?? THIS IS NOT FAIR ! I WAS OUT BECAUSE THE QUEUE’S TOO LONG HERE !!! 40 TO 50 PEOPLE HOW TO WAIT !?!?? YOU PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE OPENED MORE COUNTERS !!!!”

It was an ugly sight. Being an educated person he is, yet he failed to realize the basic ethics of queuing up for a public service. You queue and wait. It’s all done willingly for the service offered. If you’re too busy or feel too fucking important to do it, well then … sod off. It’s that simple.

But Dildo doesn’t think so. He thinks that 40 - 50 people is too much for him to bear… and so he took off to do whatever he deemed as more important. And then he came back with the expectation that one will have to prioritize him out of the others … because HE CAME EARLIER WITH A NUMBER. Well, tough luck pal… this ain’t a fucking hospital.

If that reasoning actually works, man, everyone would have gone to the office in the early morning and demanded for a priority later in the evening. It just doesn’t make sense.

Anyway, back to Dildo… after he yelled out his discontent, I was at the back of the room chiding him …

“Eh elehhhh … 40 50 people we also wait what… what makes you so special that you can’t do it, bastard ?”

His face was red with fury … and he bolted off without looking back.

So in the end, we all got our TnG cards updated, he didn’t. Serves him right for being such a pain… in the ass.