When salespeople take the window out of window shopping

Bad day, bad cof­fee, bad mood

When you don’t have much money, like me, you’d some­times like to do a spot of win­dow shop­ping, which I tried to do today.

It wasn’t a very good spot of win­dow shop­ping, given the Sun­day crowds and the rain which forced the Sun­day crowds into the malls. Still, I man­aged a good cou­pla min­utes look­ing at shop win­dows dressed to entice peo­ple to buy things.

But only a cou­ple of min­utes. Because every shop con­tained shop assis­tants who’d spy me look­ing at their shop win­dows and then creep up on me out­side and say some­thing to the effect of ‘Hi, would you like to take a look at some of our fine mer­chan­dise, like the one you’re eye­ing, as we’re also hav­ing a spe­cial dis­count on these items’, only, this being Sin­ga­pore, sounds more like, ‘Arh, we got terty pes­sand sales on slack­ted item, come inside and see more lah’.

My responses were to the effect of ‘Nabeh, scare me! Fuck off! Leemee lone!’, but me being the polite gen­tle­man that I am, sounded more like, ‘Er, no tankew, just looking’.

Vale, Hunter S. Thomp­son (again)

iTunes Party Shuf­fle is play­ing a copy of Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair (Jaffa Remix) from the album “Verve Remixed 2″ by Nina Simone