sad story

I must blog this because what I saw this afternoon while queuing for char kway teow is really too much to bear.

So I was in a pretty long queue at the char kway teow stall when we just witnessed 6 packets of char kway teow going to this office lady in front. It was a crazy wait, I almost wanted to jump right out of the queue.

As time ticked by I got bored and I kay-poed the lady in front of me by checking out what she was doing on her phone. From what I can see, she was happily texting this guy who seems to be from her office. Okay, a colleague. She was replying quickly and there were lots of "hahaha" or even "hahahaha" which I know from research to mean more than the patronizing "haha".

She pressed the back button and then I saw this other person, whose name was baby koala, flanked by heartshapes. I can see from the tiny dp that this was a man, not a baby by any chance. Her lover. Opening the chat, I saw that baby koala sent her a pretty long message of about 3-4 lines. She glanced, her eyes staying for a second or two and she types the reply without hesitation, "thanks dear". But the moment she replies she backs from the conversation and checking her phone once again for any new messages, she locked it and kept it.

I couldn't help but feel that the thanks dear was very formulaic and lacking in authenticity... and misleading! From where I was I felt as though... 1, she'd rather have a prolonged conversation with her colleague, sparing her lover only a formulaic reply. It's like... a storm is brewing and maybe the guy is the last man on earth to know.

It reeked of the beginnings of an unfaithful relationship. I say beginnings because I refuse to accuse her colleague of anything. But... it felt like she was allowing his special position in her life to slip ever so slightly.

Ah it's too tragic.