Mind you

Let me relate to you an interesting event that I happened to witness this afternoon when I went to Carrefour with the gf. I had to buy my badminton grip, and she wanted to get some biscuits for her bro who is going overseas next week. So we were queuing up and talking about lunch when suddenly a middle-aged chinese man starting yelling at the malay cashier, who was trying her best to ignore him and serve the next customer, a young chinese man. To cut the long story short, from what I gather the man was yelling at the cashier because he couldn't find his credit card/BonusLink card, and he thought that the cashier didn't give it back to him. The yelling got quite bad, and the cashier couldn't stand it and stormed away in tears to her manager's office. During this 2-3 minutes, the younger chinese man, totally amused and bemused by this whole situation, started searching for the card everywhere around the cashier's area.

And he found it in the man's trolley.

By now all of us (ok maybe just me) were thinking what and idiot this older chinese man (let's call him A and the younger one B) is. B then told A that maybe he could be a little more careful and search properly before accusing others. A then snapped and started to yell at B saying that it was none of his business, and just stormed away. Talk about gratitude. B then started yelling at A calling him a coward and asked him to come back and face him like a man. By the way 2 malay security guards were there the whole time chilling by the side. B then started to comfort the cashier, who came back in more tears.

Moral of the story? You decide. Me? I was, for those few minutes, ashamed (and then proud) to be a Malaysian chinese.