Are Singaporeans Courteous??

These entry is just a GENERAL opinion from ONLY ONE PERSON and it is has NO direct opinion or bias towards ANYONE or ANYTHING reading this entry...

Im pretty sure some of you here reading these will know what am i saying by the title... It had became a fact that Singapore ranked 30th out of the 35th nations tested for courtesy in the Reader's Digest survey... The fifth... counting from the last. And i was amused... but not surprised... So... Are Singaporeans THAT uncourteous???

In singapore... it will be considered very nice of you to open a door VERY wide open such that the person directly behind u can just walk pass the door if he is quick enough without the need to push the door further. Or by simply parking your vehicle more towards a wall such that the next vehicle who wanted to park beside you can have a good enough space to open the door wide.

But is that courtesy? Imagine that you are rushing to a certain place in peak hour... and you wanted to take a bus from a bus interchange to ur workplace. U are waiting for a bus... when the bus came, everyone who are not at the queue before cut the queue and boarded the bus before you. Den on the bus, people are sitting alone... leaving the seat right beside the window empty... and the bus was pretty crowded... you are standing.

At a certain stop, an old woman came boarded the bus and nobody volunteered to gave up their seats for her. den she wanted to sit down beside a person who had a empty seat beside her beside the window. She had to squeese thru the person to get the seat and the bus is starting to move. Frustrated looks appeared on the seated person.

You are standing in the middle of the bus and you are getting down next stop. when the door opened, you had to constantly say "S-kuse me S-kuse me" to get thru the crowd to get down. U tap the EZlink card and failed... the loud "TEE-TEE-TEE-TEE-TEE" returns the glares and stares from the crowd in the bus.

U got down... den this time u had to walk thru a crowded street... There are people walking towards u... and to your left is crowded... but not on the right... u shifted to your left to allow someone to pass you from the right... but instead of passing u thru the right, the person just squeese thru to your left in the crowd.

den u reach the workplace. The lift door is closing... and u failed to catch the lift cos the person inside was madly killing the "door close" button. And u reach the workplace late... and ur manager scolds...

Its a really bad day to start a work isnt it? But isnt that pretty familar in our everyday lifes??

So if u ask me... Are singapore courteous? I will say........

Oh ya... there is this particular FAT woman infront of me who is SIMPLY taking her own SWEET time in front of the SAM machine... RIGHT NOW i am THINKING of a PERFECT way to trip HER when she walks pass ME when SHE is DONE!!! *Evil laughter in the mind...*

Err... Dun get wrong meaning... But what im thinking is that... the answer is.. NO...

Thats what im thinking... seriously... and I admit im one uncourteous singaporean at times... I only sometimes give up my seat for the elderly... I only sometimes help a old auntie to pick up her coins when she had dropped her coins... I only sometimes hold the door for the people behind me... and i OFTEN hit the "door close" button when people are walking towards the lifts...

Now i ask u... do you???

Out!!!