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Good manners vs bad manners

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Encountered these 2 scenarios one Saturday a few weeks back, we were at Vic Market as usual getting our weekly supplies when I had to stop by one of the grocery stores to get carrots. There was a family of 3 in the queue before me, occupying 2 rows (obviously they can't stand in a row) and another guy standing behind the mother in the 2nd row. Myself and that guy only had a few items in our hands but the mother had a number of plastic bags of groceries that needed to be weighed and priced, worse still she ask for more groceries while I was waiting for my turn. Is it so hard to be considerate and see if other people have lesser things to pay for and let them go first?? That guy waiting behind the mother got ticked off and scolded the family....or bi good! If not for another store keeper who came to my "rescue", I would also join in.

Later in the afternoon, while scouting for car park at High Point Shopping Mall (yes, I dragged hubby to come along) and virtually "stalking" people who might be going back to their cars, this family actually beckoned us to follow them. So nice! We had been circling the car park for almost 15 minutes so it was such a nice gesture....why can't more people be like that? - DSA

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