Manners: Similar to the talk-to-text function on your phone – we all have it, yet we’re not all clear on just how to use it.
Over the weekend, one citizen who reached boiling point over the flagrant lack of courtesy from one woman in the car park a local mall, and took his ire straight to the best place for commiseration: Facebook group of street fights and double-parking grievances, We Are Malaysians.
Behold, the situation:
Yes, turns out one woman reckons that finding mall parking, a weekend sport not for the faint of heart here in KL, is a tag team affair, and left her vehicle to roam the area, looking for a space. We’ll let you know from the jump that this isn’t a thing: You can’t chup (mark) a parking spot with your body. That’s not how it works. It’s car parking, not body parking.
After a short stand-off, where the irate man reminds her that she is not a car, but a person, leading the parking hog insults his level of Chinese proficiency, with both mutually recording each other via their respective mobile phones, after which the woman relents, and goes back to the car from which she came. What drama!
Not all heroes wear capes sir, and thank you for fighting the good fight for manners and common sense.
However, after a deluge of internet reactions condemning her actions, Oriental Daily is claiming that the woman is now lodging a police report over the incident. The very same incident where she called someone stupid for not speaking Mandarin well-enough, and tried to reserve a parking space with her body. Right.
She now “fears for her safety” after the online backlash, but has admitted that she was in the wrong.
It’s a start!
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