How Is It Possible?

07 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment

by egomarc in car, hobbies, Just Updates, life, love, money, mood, rant, reflections, singapore, The Noble Nine, town, whatever

The likely chance of you getting into an unlucky shit only happens once. But the unlikely truth is that you can get into that shit TWICE in a few minutes at the same place at the same situation. Here’s what happend.

Base on the illustration above, the yellow car is – yes, my car. The blue one is Colin’s car. The 2 of us, including Zainal, David and Gilbert were at Orchard Central’s Gelare for Waffle Tuesdays. And yes, apparently after Zainal and Gilbert left for elsewhere, we decided for more food after feeling rather inhumanly hungry today. So we decided to leave Orchard Central for Spize at River Valley.

So when we got down to the exit point, we were greeted by these 3 cars as shown above. Car number 1 has been there for quite a while and it is rather strange that the car isn’t moving, and the machine isn’t really detecting his IU device of the car. But strangely, the guy in the car just did nothing to even react. WHERE’S THE COMMON SENSE DUDE.

The security guard(s) over there sensed something amiss, so they decided to check on the guy and they realise that there’s a problem with the car’s IU device, and ushered the other cars behind to reverse so that Car number 1 can reverse to one side to settle his issue. That’s practically fine with me because that could have been done like a very long time ago, rather than getting stuck there and being clueless on what to do other then waiting for the barrier to rise which is at this case, NOT likely to happen because of his faulty IU device.

As shown above, Car number 1, with the help of the security guards, reversed his car to that particular corner so that the rest of the vehicles which are poorly waiting for him to give way can move ahead and exit the carpark. So the vehicle behind Car number 1 proceeded and manage to pass through the gantry with ease.

Then came the second idiot.

As you can see from the poor illustration that I had to do with Paint, Car number 2 had to stop there for awhile so that the machine can deduct it’s cashcard value in order to open the gantry. And like most carparks here in Singapore, they have a display that tells you how much they have deducted from your cashcard from the car. Apparently, this idiot didn’t top up his card. And I can see his silhouette fumbling in his car and stuff like that. And with the display flashing “Insufficient funds”, I knew why there was all that “Oh shit, Oh shit” reaction going on in his car. Zzz.

And it’s quite “sian-sational” for him to feel that before him was an idiot who didn’t had the initative to get out of his car to direct other’s to move backwards so that he can move, and Car number 2 driver must be cursing and swearing at how idiotic he is. Then as Karma struck at boiling point, the kettle starts to whistle. And he got his revenge. Thanks to him, myself and Colin were like “what the fuck….” in our respective vehicles.

So ultimately, Car number 2 had to reverse to the left of my vehicle and carry on his own problem to allow other vehicles behind him to go. I was hoping that Colin wouldn’t get stuck at the gantry. Luckily he didn’t. Because it’s not the gantry machine’s technical fault by the way.

This serves as a good example of not being ready for situations like this. It’s very funny yet critical that people, knowing that they are gonna exit the carpark but not knowing how long they actually parked, actually still try to exit the carpark without even bothering to check on what amount their cashcard has left inside. And it’s funny because they think that they are the only car that is exiting this carpark. Selfish or inconsiderate?

Just…. Suay la. Haha.

Oh ya, this is a fine example of not being prepared for situations as well. So to those Singaporeans who keep complaining about the DBS/POSB server being down in the morning, please wake up your damn idea and stop being a slave to technology. If everyone is to depend on ATM machines every morning or every hour of the day, why the hell is money printed out for? Monopoly boardgames? Your wallet isn’t there to contain only CARDS. If cash was king, why didn’t you have some spare ones in your wallet/pocket/coincase? Don’t go “oh ya hor” on me.

If the server is down for a week then you have every right to complain about your money getting stuck in the bank for the wrong reasons but if it’s only for a morning which probably most of the time, you won’t really need to use it unless otherwise necessary, just be prepared with some cash in your wallet.

Now let me go back to my reflective corner.