Friday, January 10, 2014

An Encounter

On our way to do a bit of late-evening shopping at the NTUC across the road just now the Missus and I witnessed an on-going ferocious argument between two women, neither of them all that young. Both slightly built, it looked like they might have been related, possibly closely, but if they were then relations had badly broken down. Each was loudly maintaining a stream of what we guessed were pretty cutting vituperations, but since it was all in Chinese we couldn't be sure. However, exchanging compliments they weren't. Even as we were in the supermarket and doing the actual shopping we could hear the argument continuing outside. Fortunately it seemed to stop short of violence, though my guess is that it was a close run thing.

As we left the supermarket to walk back the argument had ended, but one of the antagonists was still around. She was sitting on a bench looking none too happy. Noi summed her up succinctly and wisely: Lady carry Gucci behave like that. Enough said.

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