so i'm sitting on one of those big ceramic tiled covered stools next to the hawker centre waiting for my mother and this lady parks this pram with her son in it right in front of me. then she goes to queue up to buy some 4d. her little daughter who's been running around has been yelling that her mother should buy some so she acquiesced.



so i'm just hiding in the shade cos it's a real hot day. and the kid in the pram looks all over the place and he looks at me. then he goes, "mah mee. mah mee." so i tell him, "i don't think i'm your mother." but he keeps on saying it. so i just point to where his mother is but he doesn't really give a fuck.



so this goes on for a while as he fidgets about in his seat and tries to take a swipe at this display stand that he's right next to. and i'm just trying to think cool and not perspire in the god-forsaken heat.



then his sister comes running up to him holding a teletubbies vcd that she got from the vcd shop next to the 4d shop. and she goes, "maomao!" and hands the vcd to her brother in the pram. and of course the kid starts to go, "maomao!" too. i never really thought of the teletubbies as cats.



so the little girl runs away towards the shop again. and the kid in the pram just keeps on saying, "maomao!" and waving the vcd about and i tell him that i think he should put that back cos it must be illegal even if you're a pram-riding minor. but again he doesn't give a fuck. so i gather he's either a pretty cool kid or just plain rude.



then what happens is his sister comes running back. and shes got another teletubbies vcd in her clutches. she picked up the conversation where it was left off beautifully and said, "maomao!" to which her brother said you guessed it, "maomao!" very one-track mind if you ask me.



then guess what happens, the girl who works in the vcd shop walks out to where we're at and she goes up to the girl and she gives her a mighty kick in the stomach. no actually what happens is that she just goes, "meimei, zhe ge gei hui jiejie ok?" and she takes the vcd and goes back to the shop. the girl used to work at this provision shop further down the row but that shop closed down.



but if you're paying attention to this, you would be asking, "what about the vcd with the kid in the pram?" see, the girl doesn't see that the kid has one too. so the kid just keeps on holding on to it and somehow he keeps silent when the girl came over to reclaim the vcd from his sister. it's very devious.



so my mother came along and i told her what happened. and she said, "see, that's good training what. train from young." and i was like why wasn't i taught this when i was young too. but that's another matter altogether.



see all throughout the whole "operation" the mother just waits in the 4d queue pleased as piss and being as oblivious as a bad waiter. and that is the real deviousness of it all. no one suspects little kids.



it's a beautiful scheme.