Flat Tyre

Today (26 Apr 2008), when I got home at around 2pm, the weather was hot and sunny. Therefore, instead of parking the car in front, I decided to drive to the back, which is slightly shaded.

There was then an "emergency call" from my mum before I went into the house, telling that one of my car tyres was flattening. I heard some cracking sound on my way, but I thought that were some woods.

Obviously, I was wrong.


In less than 5 minutes, it became flat.

Taking a closer look, there was a piece of big glass on the tyre. Honestly, if that happened in the past, I'd have gone bananas.

However, I said, no worries, just ask my brother to change the tyre when he's back.


When we grow older, the flame of anger becomes less strong compared to when we were young :)

Thinking from the positive perspective, I'm lucky because:
a) I discovered that today, not tomorrow or the coming Monday
b) only one tyre was spoilt
c) such incident happened here (my hometown, Sekinchan) and now (weekend), not in KL or during the weekdays


I really can't understand why those people (my neighbour next door) are such inconsiderate (and of course, stupid) to throw the unused big pieces of glass just near the road.

Apart from that, at the front side, they also never put their rubbish nicely by covering it, causing a total mess when the wild dogs "had some treasure hunts" over the night. Sometimes it's truly annoying to see the scattered pampers on the road early in the morning.


I used to ask my dad to speak to them regarding this. My dad talked to both the older and younger generations, but nothing changed. That's why when we have chance to meet face-to-face, I don't even bother to greet them. Coz I HATE THEM.

I feel I'm brainless too if I talk to them.


Once, I overheard my neighbours' conversation, about their baby son/daughter. At that time, I told my mum..

What for having so many kids? In the future, there will only be more dumpage-worms (垃圾虫, or "Lap Sap Cong" in Cantonese) in the world, which is a big threat to our earth.

I know I'm having a bad mouth sometimes by speaking ill of others, but I don't think I've spoken anything wrongly. Some may say, I'm a very "black and white" type of person that doesn't allow any grey area.

These are not important. I just judge according to what I know, what I see and what I experience.


When my elder brother reached home, I told him what happened (and he'd know what's my "hidden meaning"). Then, only he said he already experienced the same thing twice.

I was thinking to remove the glasses, but since my dad said, a lot of people had complaint that they should not take up more than half of the road to hang their clothes but they still do that, I decided to leave the glasses there and "hopefully" they will experience similar flat tyre case soon.

Sometimes it's a big headache when you meet people with no common sense.

Conclusion: Another RM105 was spent to replace the front tyre, which had been used for only about 4 months. The rear tyre was amendable.

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