Yes, what if someone cut queue and slipped right in front of you? What would you do? Would you tell that person to get back in line? What if he/she didn’t give a damn? It happens and it happened to me yesterday evening. Read on for the twist in the story.
So it was a Sunday evening and I was heading over to Tesco over in Puchong to buy some fruits. I found my parking with ease and strolled down to the fruits section only to find that most of the fruit have already been cleared out! Sunday evening, of course! Everyone shops on a Sunday! Its no wonder that all the food and fruits are gone!
Frustrated, I finally found a heap of China Fuji apples going for 40 sens each, picked my 10 and queued up to get it priced at the weighing counter. It was a long line that day and everyone was trying to get in and get out quickly.
All of a sudden there was this guy with a goatie that dashed to the front of the line with his bag of carrots, grunted something to the attendant asking him to weigh his items but was shoo-ed off and asked to queue at the back of the line. No drama there as the guy walked away and proceeded to the back of the line but suddenly he just cut right in front of me!
I was flabbergasted and filled with rage. I quickly mouthed, “Eh tak reti beratur ka? (Hey, don’t you know how to queue up?)” The guy turn his head around partially and grumbled something incomprehensible. I wanted to give him a lecture there and then but after I took a good look at him, I stopped my self as I finally realized that he was a Down’s Syndrome kid. My rage was withheld as I was caught in a moral dilemma. I kept to myself but still struggling to keep my cool as the line progressed and I got my stuff weighed.
Should I have taught that guy a lesson and chided him in public? But I would look like a bully lecturing a person less fortunate than me. Or did I do the right thing by just keeping quiet and letting him cut in front of me in the queue? Morally what I did was right but was it right for that Down Syndrome kid to be uncivilized? Does being less fortunate entitle you to be less of a civilized person?
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