Normally it takes me 15-20 minutes for me to get back to my apartment from work. Yesterday, it took me 1.5 hours. Wanna know why? Here’s why:
Yes, apparently all of Klang Valley decided to up and leave their homes to pump petrol into their cars before the midnight deadline when petrol increased 41%.
This is penny wise pound foolish. See here, by the time you finish queuing up, pump your car with that petrol, spend time in the bumper-to-bumper traffic jam to get home, you would’ve burnt up whatever “savings” you’d tried to achieve.
Meanwhile, folks like me who did not bother jockeying for a position in the queue, but who only want to go home and sleep, had to suffer a massively stupid jam. It was chock-a-block all the way home for me because the petrol stations along the way had queues that spilled onto the road, causing blocks. It didn’t help that there were too many freaking people on the road doing god knows what (okay, we know what) that night. Luckily I knew how to use the backroads to get home. If not, I would probably be stuck in that jam for 2 hours or more.
To those who rushed out to pump petrol: You guys are MORONS.
Which proves the point - the “kiasu” tag should not just be reserved for Singaporeans. Malaysians have a big claim to it too.
Here are those who experienced the mad jam and blogged about it too:
