Friday, July 28, 2006

of accidents and lottery numbers

if you saw an accident while driving, would you
a) slow down to watch
b) jot down number plates for the lottery
c) drive on past, heck, none of my business, right??
d) stop to help

well, a driver this morning chose both (a) and (b). only, i should add that he was doing so while clogging up the traffic! geez..if you don't want to get sweaty and lend a hand, at least do the next best thing: move on and get out of the way of the rest of us who are trying to do so!
then my friend commented, "the Chinese are the worst. they won't help but they'll stop to take down lottery numbers.." eventhough i'm chinese too, my distaste for this barbaric practise overides any urge (at all) to protest. to our credit, not all chinese are like that but it is true that this particular notion is a chinese one. yes, i'm sure there'll be those who will chide me with, "Got chance to get rich also you don't want! Take number only mah! Not that i caused the accident also..choi!"
ok, then if you win the lottery, don't you think you should credit it to the person whose numbers you took in the first place? it's like if you fell down the stairs (i know, choi!) then i'll pass by and instead of helping you, start counting the number of stairs you fell down to go and buy lottery.
don't worry, not quite that mean and not so silly either.
come to think of it, it's like feeding off someone's bad luck to get good luck. well, sorry, if i don't see the sense in this.
but back to that driver this morning, if there were no other drivers like him/her, she/he singlehandedly clogged up the entire road from usj 4 to SS17 sial!