Speaking up

I would say, just a year ago, I wouldn’t have that much guts to speak up as I now have today. Should we speak up?

Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you their past experiences with barbers from hell that has ruin their hair with these (so called) hair stylists’ favourite weapon - the scissors. So the other day I went to APT to get a regular hair cut, this time I was even armed with a picture just in case these hair stylist choose to be temporary autistic. So I explained precisely the way I wanted my precious mane to be trimmed and I also further showed him a picture with a hair cut that I would want, as people would put it that ‘a picture paints a thousand words’. I did this just in case my vocabulary wasn’t that impressive enough for him. Well, it turned out that he was showing off his ‘retardedness’ in communication rather then his hair styling expertise. To my horror, I now have a bald spot on both sides just above my ears. At this moment, I had enough of this kind of idiotic behaviour and I told him that this wasn’t what I wanted. Looking like a person being accidentally ‘lawn mowed’, I told the lady at the counter that I had not requested to be ‘lawn mowed’ or whatsoever by that demon of sort. While I created a small tiny winy scene, a few other hair stylists that had came to so called comfort me, just makes things worst. They too seem to be infected by the autism virus that had spread like wild fire by not being able to interpret the picture which I showed to all of them. Being frustrated by all that shallow brains, I just wanted to pay and get out of there but the lady refuse my money and said I don’t need to.

Wow.. What an experience.

Moral of the story is of course, Speak up!

Now, where’s my thank you note from APT? It should sound like this:

Thank you for voicing out your unsatisfied service at our Hair Saloon. We appreciate customers like you who would speak up when we are truly in the wrong for we may not realize in the past. We would take this matter seriously and work our way in improving our service. Thank you for making our hair stylists realize that they should always take their costumers hair cut seriously.

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One Saturday while my mum and I was swimming as usual at our swimming club, there was a crazy party going on just beside the pool. Crazy being the not so exaggerating word, we dint know what we were ‘swimming’ ourselves into. As their music was loud enough to stress us up, these imbecile people couldn’t resist jumping into people first and then the pool. Yes, u heard right, these people jump into the pool as if they have barbequed their eye earlier while at their barbeque dinner. As I was swimming in my lane, I can’t help but told 2 different imbecile clothed pool jumpers each once that I was swimming and that they are getting into my way. One of them even knocked into me while I was swimming. I told them to use the side of the pool for their childish activities. The third incident wasn’t a charm as 2 guys were trying to push a girl into the pool while my mum was resting just in front of them. I became protective and while still panting from my swimming, I pointed my finger at them and shouted: “Oi!!! We are swimming here! Can’t you see she is there!? Please go to the side!” If I have not done that, this girl would have been pushed onto my mum in the pool. What brainless and blind people are these!? Not having the peace of mind when bodies of imbecile people are like raining all over the pool, my mum and I are forced to leave the dangerous environment. As I was leaving the pool, they started announcing over the mike to not disturb the swimmers and only play at the side allocated to them. What timing….

These teenagers should call themselves kids and learn some civic consciousness and be more sensitive to their surroundings.

Now, where’s my appreciation card from these kids? Kids, Listen up! These are what you should write:

Thank you for shouting at us the other day at the pool. It is people like you that will help us realize our embarrassing actions. Thank you for teaching us valuable lessons. If you would not have spoken up that day, we may injure or cause harm to someone. Thank you for preventing us from being involve in such unwanted circumstances that we may regret.

I am not saying that everyone should speak up about what they want or what they like but to speak up within the boundaries and rules that exist. Speaking up creates realizations and valuable lessons.

As listening is just as important, maybe my next post should be: Listen Up!