So a few days ago I went to watch a movie with my lads. I watched in the XXI Cinema (read: Twenty One Cinema) in a nearby mall. So I went there early to get the tickets (I don't usually do that).
I knew that by the time I got there the cinema (let alone ticket counters) aren't even open yet and I plan to queue in front of the cinema entrance with the FEW early queuers. I got there at around 10.30 and I was mistaken. The few early queuers aren't few at all. There are LOADS of them. But anyway I decided to join the queue anyway because I needed to get the tickets whatsoever. Besides, I wouldn't expect to experience such a long delay.
I expected the cinema to open at 11. But it opened somewhere on 11.15 which is already a let down. But the biggest let down that day was when the cinema actually opened. So here's the situation. The cinema entrance and the ticket counters are a few metres apart. When the cinema entrance opened, the whole queue fell apart like a stack of cards. Like seriously. Nobody cared about who queued first or who queued last. They all rushed to the ticket counters to form a new queue. The back-markers rushed the fastest because they wanted to complement the fact that they arrived a little later than the front-queuers. The front-queuers wanted to defend their position. And I was like, "This is fucking stupid... What's the fucking point in actually queuing in front of the entrance? I might as well not join the queue but sit near the front-queuers so that I could race like a kangaroo on drugs once the entrance were opened." And at that very moment, I realised that I was in Indonesia dealing with typical Indonesian people. I'm saying that because I grew up in Australia, my mother tongue is English, and I new the difference between Westerners and Indonesian.
Indonesians just never want to lose you know. They always want to win. If they have the chance to get first place then why not. Even though that means putting strangers aside. I mean I know they're strangers but goddammit they got there first and their legs are cripplin' from queuing a lot longer than you back-markers. This is just really really stupid.
If you're an Indonesian reading this then mark my words. "DO NOT EVER BE LIKE THOSE UGLY LAZY STUPID UN-EMPATHIC BACK-MARKERS!"
I knew that by the time I got there the cinema (let alone ticket counters) aren't even open yet and I plan to queue in front of the cinema entrance with the FEW early queuers. I got there at around 10.30 and I was mistaken. The few early queuers aren't few at all. There are LOADS of them. But anyway I decided to join the queue anyway because I needed to get the tickets whatsoever. Besides, I wouldn't expect to experience such a long delay.
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I expected the cinema to open at 11. But it opened somewhere on 11.15 which is already a let down. But the biggest let down that day was when the cinema actually opened. So here's the situation. The cinema entrance and the ticket counters are a few metres apart. When the cinema entrance opened, the whole queue fell apart like a stack of cards. Like seriously. Nobody cared about who queued first or who queued last. They all rushed to the ticket counters to form a new queue. The back-markers rushed the fastest because they wanted to complement the fact that they arrived a little later than the front-queuers. The front-queuers wanted to defend their position. And I was like, "This is fucking stupid... What's the fucking point in actually queuing in front of the entrance? I might as well not join the queue but sit near the front-queuers so that I could race like a kangaroo on drugs once the entrance were opened." And at that very moment, I realised that I was in Indonesia dealing with typical Indonesian people. I'm saying that because I grew up in Australia, my mother tongue is English, and I new the difference between Westerners and Indonesian.
Indonesians just never want to lose you know. They always want to win. If they have the chance to get first place then why not. Even though that means putting strangers aside. I mean I know they're strangers but goddammit they got there first and their legs are cripplin' from queuing a lot longer than you back-markers. This is just really really stupid.
If you're an Indonesian reading this then mark my words. "DO NOT EVER BE LIKE THOSE UGLY LAZY STUPID UN-EMPATHIC BACK-MARKERS!"
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