Telling behaviour

Today, while wait­ing in the wait­ing room of a med­ical imag­ing place, a lady walked in with who I think is her elderly mother, and they spoke to the radiologist/medical imag­ing dude guy, and then they made their way out. I sez to them, ‘hang on, lemme get the door for you’, to which the lady sez, ‘are you Sin­ga­porean?’, to which I sez, ‘Why, yes, why would you think oth­er­wise’?.

Of course, I para­phrase. I actu­ally merely sezzed to her, ‘Um yes’, to which she sezzed back while her mother wan­dered off alone down the hall­way of the med­ical imag­ing place, ‘Hmmm, sur­pris­ing’.

So, the non-surprising thing to do, as a proud Sin­ga­porean, would have been to let them get the door them­selves, and then mut­ter under one’s proud Sin­ga­porean breath, that, ‘wah lao, this place the MRI so expen­sive, auto­matic door also dowan to install, all the money go inside the doc­tor pocket lah! You think what? One MRI so much already, long time ago already pay off the machine whaaaat!’, see­ing as ’tis the proud Sin­ga­porean sea­son to jus­tify prices and salaries (‘The Great Sin­ga­pore Pay-Scale is fol­lowed in May by the Great Sin­ga­pore Sale’, says a para­graph in the 2007 Visit Sin­ga­pore e-Brochure’, or something).

I know there are ugly types in every coun­try, but the other day, my friend told me of a trip to one of KL’s won­der­ful pirated DVD shop­ping com­plexes, and how when he was pos­i­tively iden­ti­fied as a Sin­ga­porean, was given a sales pitch for ‘the sea­son finale of Amer­i­can Idol 2007, Amer­ica haven’t see yet, we got already, nair bluff you one, many peo­ple buy already! You buy together with com­plete sea­son of Heroes, I give you discount’!

Any­way, back to med­ical imag­ing. You know how they’re always tout­ing the safe­ty­ness­ness of x-rays, MRIs and CT scans, and how they don’t really dam­age you unless you were preg­nant or if you had a pace­maker, or had some metal inside or on your body? If they’re so safe, then maybe they could make self-operated photo booths which dis­pensed x-rays, MRIs and CTs like Neo­print stick­ers. Wouldn’t that be cool?

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