Raffles Place gets really crowded after working hours are over, and the pathway to the MRTs get really packed at times.
It gets me pretty pissed off. Because people walk really slowly, and some of them would strafe left and right and take up a third of the corridoor! You know what? I think there should be a goddamned RULE for HUMAN TRAFFIC, not just vehicular traffic. Like erm...there should be a one metre spacing between the walls and human-traffickers - wait a sec...that sounds wrong 0.0 - and INDOOR PEDESTRIANS at all times.
If you wish to move about in the empty aisle (one aisle for either direction), you can, of course. Except that you'd better be prepared to RUN. Meaning that only one foot can be touching the ground at any one time. Obviously, you can also skip slowly or just hop from one foot to another or use your hands to walk,
smart alecs, but then you'd better be prepared to LOOK STUPID.
And then, to make sure the rule is enforced, there will be nondescript men dressed in casual clothes who're actually police officers. And they'd hang out at crowded shopping centres and alleyways in great numbers for the first two weeks after the rule's announcement and dish out a $100 fine to any offender that WALKS. More money for the government, so the PAP's eyes would open wide, and it might help make Singaporeans healthier too. Yippee!
Okay, so you're probably thinking that a kook like me should NEVER become a leader of Singapore, but relax, i'm not planning to be a "leader of Singapore", and i don't actually mean what i'm...
Hmm actually, to be honest, even though i wanted to declare after all this that i was actually joking...i'm starting to think that my idea's making quite a bit of sense! Like what the hell lol. So i AM a kook haha.
But even if making it a law IS ridiculous, i shall be really, REALLY serious for once. Making it a law IS unfeasible, but i really do think it should be more than just simple courtesy for people to KEEP TO THE LEFT OF THE ESCALATOR IF THEY'RE NOT GOING TO WALK DOWN IT!!! (unless there's congestion on the other end lah.)
I mean, it should at least be BASIC courtesy lol. People should stare with much derision and shake their heads in great numbers at rude and insensitive people like these, as if the same person had just spitted on the floor or slapped his/her children in public. Girlfriends should dump those offending boyfriends of theirs on the spot, as if those boys had just cheated on them or told them that they're fat or whatever.
I encountered it twice on the way home today and i get really irritated when i see people not walking down the right side of escalators, especially when there is this HUGE empty space in front of the person and there's no congestion near the escalator's exit.
I get MOST especially irritated if the MRT's arriving in a minute's time and this asshole of a guy decides to be a poser and just stands on the right side with his left arm around his girlfriend while there's nothing in front of him and the rest of the world is BEHIND him, breathing down his neck...and the stupid little sonofabitch is just SO insensitive that he is literally DEAF to the needs of people around him who want to get home quickly to rest up.
Okay maybe it SHOULD be made into a law, after all. :|
