Now on the first day, I met up with Amy, a reader from Auckland.
She brought me to Sylvia Park, the biggest family mall in Auckland at the moment, for a walk about and to catch some lunch.
Choice outfit of the day. It was rather chilly.
We settled for The Coffee Club (a franchise from Australia) at the mall and simultaneously ordered our food. We were soooo hungry!
Then just as we submitted our orders, waited for 15 minutes. And large delicious plates of food were served in front of us.
As just as plates touched the table, and us barely have time to even lift our forks, a loud siren went off, booming through the mall and into our restaurant too.
It was the fire alarm.
"You GOTTA be kidding me?!" I thought.
At first everyone was stunned. No one moved and no one knew exactly what to do.
Then the manager of the restaurant walked out, looked around, and as if suddenly decided to finally act out his authority, he made the final decision while everyone was lost.
He informed all his staff and then announced that we have to leave the building.
It was all so calm. Everyone got up and walked out slowly, following the large crowd that were flowing toward the back-entrance of the mall.
While following the crowd like a good little foreign citizen, I glanced back and this was what I saw.
Did you see what I saw?
The three girls on the picture were customers earlier at the restaurant sitting next to our table.
And in their hands..
were food!!
Their food came just minutes before ours! And when the alarm went off, they took the chance to hand picked all their food from their plates and walked out of the restaurant following everyone like it's the most normal thing to do.
And I can bet my good penny that they won't be returning to the restaurant any time soon.
Least to pay for their food?!
You know, this is the reason why so many people in the world scrutinize us Asians. We do things like this!! (Or some of our other counterparts of equal skin color)
Many Asians take the goodwill or the better welfare of people and society for our (their?) own benefit, or in this case, taking advantage of situation during the extreme moments.
But then so do a lot of other people from other races. We tend to stereotypes. Can't blame us for doing so.
And if you think that's bad. Wait till you see this middle age lady.
Oh yes. You're looking alright.
She was sitting in the restaurant earlier, and even more champion, instead of taking advantage of free food, she took our her entire plate. So to make she didn't leave any salad or fries behind.
You would think she could be any more subtle. But NOOOO~~~~
She was carrying the plate around, eating happily, in public's view!
And then she proceeded to sit down next to what was presumed to be her husband.
Yep. If you want to steal food and eat, eat in comfort.
Find a nice little sidewalk and sit there under the chilly autumn morning to eat your sandwich.
Then you would probably think: "Oh, the husband would be so embarrassed and maybe ushered her to stop this kind of shameful act. And either to, advice her on the spot and pretend that he didn't know her OR ask her to finish the food as quick as possible and leave."
WRONG AGAIN!
The husband ate with her.
Awe... so romantic. Sharing the same plate outdoor. NOT!
Me pouting with the shameless couple in the background.
Now if you think that's reasonable till now. After all, the food was going to go to waste anyway. The restaurant will throw those food out one way or the other when everyone left. So why waste good food?
Right?
You'll be amazed.
After scraping all their food clean, the woman stood up, with some salad left on the plate.
Walked to the other end of the sidewalk.
Where a bin stood.
Tilted her plate and let the salad fell into the bin.
And walked in the other direction, AWAY!!!!
WITH THE PLATE!!!
While everyone was walking back toward into the building.
Seemed like it was a false alarm, either that the chaos has been settled.
So I did the only thing a blogger would do at this occasion.
During such a fiasco with such an incident.
I squatted down.
Smile.
And point.
Say cheese!
shhh... don't tell her. She still doesn't know.
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