Excuse me?

Few individuals walking in a slow pace side by side, engrossed deeply in their conversation, oblivious to their surroundings, forming some sort of a human road-block. How many times have you come across such situations? In complexes, pathways, walkways or even roadside. Hellooouuu? "Your father own the road ah?" as the Chinese would often say. I mean, what is so hard about being more alert, paying just a little more of attention towards your surroundings. If you really can't, then go buy some sensors and attach it through-out your body, so that everytime something gets near to you, the loud beeping signals will act as a superb reminder.

An illustration. Blue denotes dimwits, black denotes bottleneck and red denotes opposite traffic.

The above is because its something I often encounter in KL Sentral, where mostly everyone seems to be moving around in a relatively slow pace, not forgetting, in a row. I mean, come on, don't lah cause inconvenience to others. It's already that bad out there on the roads, now what?!?!? Human congestion? Being me, I would just get close, excuse myself, gets an opening in response, pass through, and thank them, because unlike them, I'm of a superior species, make that far more superior. Well, an apology does ensue at times, and a smile is gladly returned. You can always fake a conversation behind them, to cause annoyance obviously, relevant topics include:

1. Road blocks in KL Sentral in front of you, very congested

2. Animals crossing (preferbly cows) happening in KL Sentral

3. Protest/Demonstration in KL Sentral, large crowd behind

4. Sing Three Blind Mice (if there's 3), else think of something more creative

5. Accident, oil barrels in front, have to move slow

Needless to say, the same thing occured today. The only difference is, when I tried to excuse myself through, the not-so-gentle-men decided to stare awkwardly at me instead, as though I've disrupted some multi-billion dollar deal in discussion. dah-blew-tee-eff!?!?! I remained calm, looked at them, raised my eyebrows, did a hand gesture that I wanted to pass through and said "Excuse me, you know?" while repeating my gesture. Fortunately, their brain cells were finally able to record and process the information and one of them finally inched away to ease the bottleneck formed. Pfffttt! jed 1 :: dimwits 0

Oh, while I'm still in this, another thing that I seriously don't understand and can't tolerate is that why some people enjoy standing in the middle of somewhere, slowly forming into a circle (usually) and start chatting away. Move to the side lah, can? Your Feng Shui master say must stand in the middle, in a cricle to can absorb more chi is it? Especially in places like Sg. Wang, die dot com. Once, I was quite annoyed, so, didn't give a damn and walked right through these chatterboxes and of course they stared at me lah, to which I responded, "Sorry, no place to walk". I think they did curse me (heftily) before hurrying away. jed 2: dimwits 0

An illustration. Blue denotes dimwits, black denotes bottleneck and red denotes opposite traffic.

So, if you were to encounter such situations, what would you do? Just continue squeezing through, ignoring these dimwits? Remember, "You can make a difference" - quoted from Road Safety ads on TV.

p/s: Don't ask me what difference can you make cause I'm just quoting, hehe. I rule.