Tuesday, July 24, 2007

"Helpful" Indian

I had a minor car accident the other day. It was in the morning and my driver was going quite fast at the bumpy lane not far from my apartment. A women pulled out in front of us and we hit her car straight away and my driver accelerated (I wonder why he do that?) and we slammed to the wall on the right.

Immediately after the accident, lots of Indians came out from everywhere and started their little morning "entertainment" performed by us. Some was still in their pajamas, two were still brushing their teeth!! ( How do I know they were brushing their teeth? Isn't it obvious - they have their toothbrush in their mouth)
Indians started giving advices, some inspecting the damage on the cars, some touching the car (maybe they feel more "involved" by touching the car??) and lots of ppl talking. Where the hell did all these ppl came from?

Anyway, the women denied that it was her fault and drove off. "Helpful" Indians helped us remembering her car plat number, where she stayed.... To be honest, I quite appreciate this "helpfulness". :)
But what do u do at the end? We just drove off, I mean what else can we do? We wouldn't go knock on her door and asked for compensation. Besides, I don't want the trouble and don't want to waste my time. I think the car will be covered by the insurance. :p Not my car anyway.

So there u go - a little incident regarding cars and the helpful Indians.

If it was in M'sia or Hkg, ppl wold come out have a look, "8" a little bit - but they would not help. I tends to convinced myself it was because of the "busy schedule" they have ahead of them. (makes me fell better) Or maybe it is true - Indians take-things-slowly i.e too free.
Oh come one - maybe they are just a bit of everything - helpful, too free & slow. hmmm that doesn't sound too good, does it?

This is not your homeland, far away, u will experience different cultural behaviour. That's the "good" thing about being far - Different experience, joss - :)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

What hap xia? Think u r not hurt physically right?!?!

Yaya HK pple not so helpful de. They only nice when u speak english or show them the MONEY!!

Anonymous said...

wahaha .. u should take pix la.

Oh Oh Oh said...

Forgot la - things happened so quickly.

But I will post something for u - my no. 1 fan. hihi

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