Malaysian hospitality

I am not trying to disgrace our own society in terms of attitude, but I am only amused that somehow when I return from United Kingdom each time I seem to observe a great different in our society hospitality.

This is one of the many incidence I have had encountered that prompt me to write it down.

Case1. One day while travelling on a bus on my way to Subang Jaya it rain heavily. The bus stopped at the fruit stall near USJ14 where I got down. Could not go anywhere further because I did not have an umbrella, so I have to temporarily hide under the fruit stall's roof. To while away my time till the rain stopped, I ordered 1 durian. Somehow this fruit tasted extremely delicious probably because I was kind of hungry. After finishing the fruit, I ordered another 2 more to take home to my wife. The rain did not subside so I tried to flag down some passing taxi without any sign of them even bothered to stop. Suddenly I notice an umbrella around the shop and immediately I asked the boss's wife if she would allow me to borrow it promising I will return it immediately once I get to my car which was parked about 400 yards away. The boss'swife flately said no cause she needed to use it herself. It did not occurred to me that she is not helpful but honest. About half hour passed, another customer in a 4 wheel driver pulled next to the store and ordered some durian.The driver stayed put in the car. After he got the durian delivered to him via his open window, I took the opportunity to ask hime whether he could offer me a lift to my car parked in Carefour. Unfortunately he also refused. Another half hour passed and the boss's wife finally asked me to take the unbrella. It took nearly 1 hour to convince this lady that I needed her umbrella to help me out of this helpless situation. Had I been oversea ie UK I believe the situation would had been different.

Case 2. This happened on my arrival from Stansted airport to LCCT terminal. On the way to the casserole to reclaim my luggage I had to retrieve 2 trolleys from the trolley stand. As I went over to the stand, I notice several trolleys stuck and a lady was struggling to retrieve one trolley. Immediately it dawn upon that if I go to the front of the trolley stand and push the trolley while the other person pulled it it may dislodge it easily. It did.She took her trolley and off she went leaving me all alone to handle the similar situation.Struggling again to pull the stuck trolley by myself isn't easy. Then a man came and while I was trying to kick the trolley out he wanted to take the trolley away but I told him I wanted the trolley instead. These people just returned from overseas and have they not learnt a lesson or two from UK yet when they are back home their old habit become reactivated ie bad manners.