I did something naughty yesterday. I was sitting in the train next to this man who was the slowest SMS-er in the world, and was eavesdropping on his sms conversations. heh heh heh.

This man had issues. I mean, I have sent some pretty mundane SMSes in my day, but his really took the cake.

He sms-ed his wife to tell her (in romanised Tamil) that he got a good seat on the train. Corner facing door. Well, hooray for you.

He smsed his son/ daughter to ask where they were and when they will be back.

He smsed his friend or someone to say that he will meet them at the coffeeshop at 9 as usual. Man looked like a togo warrior. If you will meet them as usual, no need to SMS already lah.

Then his son/daughter smsed back to say she was still with her counsellor (hmmm.. mental illness? maybe.)

He started typing out a reply to "tell him about your disobedience", then changed his mind and deleted that message.

That's it! The whole journey from Jurong to Woodlands, with constant typing, thats all the messages he was able to send. The man gets my award for slowest SMS-er.

There are a few constant things that people do in the MRT when their mobile phone rings.
One, they stare at the screeching phone for the longest time, trying to recognise the number. The more terok the ringtone, the longer they stare. (If you answer the phone, there's a higher chance of knowing who is calling, agreed?)

Two, the first question they answer seems to be "where are you?" because they always give out that info first. "I have 3 more stops." I am between Khatib and Yio Chu Kang." This has to be a habit formed when pple just got mobiles, and you never knew where they were.

Three, when they end the call, they always look at their phone for a few mins in puzzlement before they put it away. Like they don't know what it is, or why they were holding it. Maybe its true, the radiation from handphones DOES cause memory loss.


Just watch next time someone's phone rings in the train and see if you spot the above steps. There may be a 10% variance, but its all there.