You Can Bank On Them...

Today marks the start of COE bidding for this month... I'll know by Wednesday night if my car dealer is successful in their bidding...

In anticipation of the mega major cash outflow that'll follow, Master Choco obediently went to the Uh-Oh-Bank to close his fixed deposit accounts and transfer those cash to the People-Owned-Savings-Bank...

Scene in Uh-Oh-Bank
Choco : I'd like to close four of my fixed deposit accounts...

Female Bank-Officer : Four!?! Oh... can I have your IC please?

Choco : I'm sorry, I only brought my Driving License along. Is that alright?

Female Bank-Officer : Driving License? I need your IC... Because I need to see your address!

Choco : Ermm... But my Driving License has my NRIC no... do you think you can check my particulars from your computers?

Female Bank-Officer : But you want to close accounts. So I need your IC...

Choco : So is there any way out? I have accounts with your bank... you just probably need my NRIC no. right?

Female Bank-Officer : Let me make a call first...
(She called someone.. mumbled in Mandrin, presumably to her superior to seek clearance... Once she hung up her phone, she proceeded to clatter her keyboard and started to process my request of closing my FD accounts, without uttering a word to me.)

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My gosh... my life savings are deposited in your bank and this is how I was treated... Given that I've decided to withdraw a hefty sum out of the bank (just so that I can pay off my car downpayment), doesn't mean that I'm ending my banking relationship with Uh-Oh-Bank right?


Scene in People-Owned-Savings-Bank
Mega long queue on a Monday afternoon... Master Choco was sweating profusely due to long walk from Uh-Oh-Bank to current location... Perhaps carrying his life-saving in the form of a cheaque in his wallet freaked him out a bit too... Master Choco is an ultra unsophisticated and uncultured man who's greatest single purchase thus far in his not-so-young life is his camera... Quite a pathetic thought, so let's just move on...

So Master Choco joined the long queue and halfway through the line, an old Ah Mah joined the queue behind him,,, Master Choco, trying to behave in a socially acceptable manner, placed himself a body apart from a female customer in front of him... But who's to know that the old Ah Mah quietly but surely, side-stepped Master Choco and slipped herself nonchalently into this one body width gap, right in front of Master Choco!!!!

What the heck?!?!?! It's like daylight robbery! Master Choco felt like his right was taken away right under his nose!

He had two options: (i) tell the old Ah Mah politely that she has jumped queue, (ii) make a fuss of it and tell her off (cos' she was trying to do the same to the customer in front of her again)

But experience has taught Master Choco that either options will end up the same... That Master Choco will be seen as the ungentlemenly and ungracious idiot who kicked a fuss with an old lady...

Thus Master Choco took the third option... suffer in silence...

But on hindsight, Master Choco suddenly realised something... He has jumped the queue on someone as well... He has also tried to take away what's 'supposed' to 'belong' to someone else... He's like the old Ah Mah, robbed someone of their rights...

What goes around, comes around... Perhaps the old Ah Mah was there to give Master Choco a life lesson: Never get in the way of old women. It's futile to kick a fuss with them because they'll have their way anyway... Just take a step back and swollow the bitter medicine... Usually, they mean well...

Master Choco is hoping that he's interpreting it all correctly... ??!?!?!?