The one about the tweet

Heard some weird stories over the weekend.. let me start with this one...

The one about the tweet

Tweety (abbreviation for tweet) has balloted for a park space in his workplace (after a long wait…) and has not been utlising it. Being a nice person, he allowed his friend ,who has just joined the company, to use the lot. Being in a very space-constrained area, the carpark area is the elevated platform kind. So, if one has parked in the upper platform, and has to drive off before the car occupying the lot directly below it, driver of the car at the upper platform has to request the driver of car at the lower platform to move his vehicle first.

Oh well, nice kind gesture of allowing his pal to use his unutilized parking lot resulted in tweety’s friend to be “famous” overnite cuz of using tweety’s lot. Turned out that the lower floor occupant was tweety’s manager. And tweety’s manager was not happy that he was called out from the midst of his meeting to remove his vehicle, and that tweety did not use the lot himself but instead allowed others to park in his lot. Heard that tweety got into an argument with manager cuz he felt that he was just exercising his rights to ballot for the scarce commodity – (understand that the carpark waiting list was at least 6 months long).

Typical Singaporean mentality – kiasu nature ~ I’m just exercising my right as an employee of the company. I’ve a car, I do drive at times, so since I’m paying the monthly rental, what’s the problem if most of the time the carpark lot is empty?)

Sigh sigh! … my take on this if you aren’t using the space most of the time, then don’t even ballot for it. It’s certainly not an effective usage of the scarce parking space, and since you don’t drive to work that frequently, why ballot for the lot. Sigh, most people naturally just think from their point of view… just like the silly contentious issue of supermarkets not providing any plastic bags. For goodness sake, it will not do you harm to just bring your own bag (Afterall, you do bring your wallet/ purse out right?) Can’t afford the expensive reuseable bags? Get the economical one from fairprice then. It can double up as a tote bag too.. (Apparently, my brother saw a lady using that as a tote while checking in at the airport!!)

C'est tout for now.. have an appointment at the gym at 1830! (dreaded to go cuz it's DAY 2 and it's so not convenient!)