I love to go to the Borders in Quennsbay Mall,where it also houses a Starbuck there, just love to read with my children coupled with a piece of cheese cake and my Americano,no sugar,no cream.
I was talking to the security guard yesterday when i was there with my boys,(minus my lovely wife),why they put up a sign that reads like this in Starbuck," Customers are only allowed to read a book at any one time,thank you for your cooperation)
The the guard told me it was all because of the ugliness of our human nature, for an example,customers would just take so many books and magazines into Starbucks and never bother to place them back to where they took them from.
Sometimes when the staff of Borders of Starbucks go around picking up the books or magazines,some of them were already tatterd and there are even words scribbled inside the books,what more those magazines which are wrapped with plastic are unwrapped and the customers would just leave them there.
I guess this is the selfish act of certain man and woman that sometimes leave us feeling aghast....
P/S : When it is everyone's business,it is no one's busines
Some people unfortunately don't think about what they are doing that can cause inconvenience to others.
ReplyDeleteWe sometimes have this unfortunate attitude of "well, let the staff do some work" mentality going on. Like, one throw rubbish on the road and says "otherwise, the street sweeper don't have a job to do". :(
Would "First-class infrastructure, third-class mentality" apply to us?
ReplyDeleteA bookshop is my all-time fav place to hang out. I can spend hours in there.
That is the ugly side of us... sigh... people give an inch, we exploit their generousity and take a foot from them...
ReplyDeleteThis is sort of vandalism...
This kind of concept is not suitable yet in our society.
ReplyDeletesome are just hogging or to lazy to get up to get a second book/mag
ReplyDeleteSo called highly educated people who loves reading but boh-kah-si...much worst than Bananaz who boh-tak-cheh yet also knows right from wrong...aiya!
ReplyDeleteOverseas, even at places like McDs, KFCs...and the like, everybody will clear up the mess on their tables, throw it all away in the bin and stack up the trays on top nicely. The same also in the uni cafeterias.
ReplyDeleteJust look at what people do here...and the canteens in our schools. I hang my head in shame - our (young) people here behave like their parents have never taught them properly....
it always needs some rules n regulation.
ReplyDeleteSeen such things in MPH and Borders over here... *sigh* really sien when you have to deal with such nuisance like this! I dun browse books like that usually. I usually will look for books that I want online beforehand and read the review before buying them... lol... kiasu ma... I sked I wun like the book if I buy them without reading recommendations and reviews first.
ReplyDeleteThere used to be a starbuck inside border at time square too last time! and just like you I also like to read with the smell of coffee.
ReplyDeletedang those people are really dufus.. they really dont know how to appreciate things and misused the convenience that others are giving to them.
haiz.
very soon.. we will not have the privileged to do free reading..
ReplyDeleteThis is really ugly and uncivilized. I curse this type of people too. Things that you don't do at home, please don't it at people's place also.
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