Traffic Jams in a Mall
So in a typical Singapore mall, there are 3 types of people.
The strollers - These are those who walk at 2metres per minute. They look at EVERY SINGLE SHOP DISPLAY. Usually the families, couples, and individuals who aimlessly walk around talking to their partners over the phone "You hang up first, no you first, ok, 1,2,3, bye! Hey! You didnt hang up! Tee hee hee!" (Oh brother.) They seem to be oblivious to the intense traffic situation in these malls, and take up half the walking area strolling, licking that ice cream or slurping their starbucks. They seemed to live in their own world, a world where there's no one at all, and thus they often stop right there and then to tie their shoes, or sometimes for no logical reason. The strollers irritate the heck out of the speeders.
The speeders - Excellent pilots.They seem to have an inbuilt radar that plots out their course, and they hardly fail. Just like the millienium falcon in Star Wars, they even seem to negotiate close to DEATH near misses in between centimetres of a gap between humans. These people know where they want to get to, and want to get there quick. Nothing can stop them, or so they think. Speeders, like hawks, can spot a slight gap in a sudden clump of human traffic and instinctly, their navigational course plotting system immediately calculates distance, speed, air resistance, friction of thy own shoes, and takes immediate action. Watching one of them dart through traffic can be equally as exciting as watching a car chase sequence in a movie. Only one thing can stop these stuntmen (and women), the groupies.
The groupies - This species of humans are the most bizzarre. They just simply....stand right there. They stand in the midst of a human traffic jam, and simply.....discuss. These people have extremely poor situation awareness, or perhaps just bad eyesight. They have natural tendencies to just stop dead in their tracks whenever they have a problem. "Eh, Where's Jane? Lets just stand right here and wait for her" "Where are we going to eat? Let's just stand here and discuss first" "Wait, where's my wallet? I want to stand here and recollect my memory for the whole day, let me meditate first. Hummmm.....ting."
I would love to expound more on this, but i have 1 hour to get ready to head out. I'll talk more later.
The strollers - These are those who walk at 2metres per minute. They look at EVERY SINGLE SHOP DISPLAY. Usually the families, couples, and individuals who aimlessly walk around talking to their partners over the phone "You hang up first, no you first, ok, 1,2,3, bye! Hey! You didnt hang up! Tee hee hee!" (Oh brother.) They seem to be oblivious to the intense traffic situation in these malls, and take up half the walking area strolling, licking that ice cream or slurping their starbucks. They seemed to live in their own world, a world where there's no one at all, and thus they often stop right there and then to tie their shoes, or sometimes for no logical reason. The strollers irritate the heck out of the speeders.
The speeders - Excellent pilots.They seem to have an inbuilt radar that plots out their course, and they hardly fail. Just like the millienium falcon in Star Wars, they even seem to negotiate close to DEATH near misses in between centimetres of a gap between humans. These people know where they want to get to, and want to get there quick. Nothing can stop them, or so they think. Speeders, like hawks, can spot a slight gap in a sudden clump of human traffic and instinctly, their navigational course plotting system immediately calculates distance, speed, air resistance, friction of thy own shoes, and takes immediate action. Watching one of them dart through traffic can be equally as exciting as watching a car chase sequence in a movie. Only one thing can stop these stuntmen (and women), the groupies.
The groupies - This species of humans are the most bizzarre. They just simply....stand right there. They stand in the midst of a human traffic jam, and simply.....discuss. These people have extremely poor situation awareness, or perhaps just bad eyesight. They have natural tendencies to just stop dead in their tracks whenever they have a problem. "Eh, Where's Jane? Lets just stand right here and wait for her" "Where are we going to eat? Let's just stand here and discuss first" "Wait, where's my wallet? I want to stand here and recollect my memory for the whole day, let me meditate first. Hummmm.....ting."
I would love to expound more on this, but i have 1 hour to get ready to head out. I'll talk more later.
posted by Stefan at 12:46 AM
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