This Is So Fucking Absurd no. 02

This is so fucking absurd
This is so fucking absurd
This is so fucking absurd

I needed to buy flight tickets. SInce I don't feel like bothering my sister for her credit card to book online, and since I have plenty of time at hand; I decided to buy them over the counter.

This is so fucking absurd
This is so fucking absurd
I make no attempt to hide from you that this will eventually lead to tragedy.

I went... I pressed the queue number generating machine and my number reads... "336".
I wait, It can't take that long... The number on the display says 219. The time on my clock says 2:55 pm
I wait...
I wait...

This is so fucking absurd
This is so fucking absurd
This is so fucking absurd

The time on my clock reads 3:15 pm, the number on the display reads 225. "It really won't take that long" I tell myself. On a scale of 1-10, my optimism reads 6899.

This is remotely absurd
This is remotely absurd
This is remotely absurd

I wait...
I wait...
I wait... 3:30 PM

I make my way to Starbucks. I tell myself I'll drink a cup of coffee and explore the big big universe of cyber space.
A short latte' with one pack of raw sugar... just the way I like it. Amazingly, it was a really good latte', a rarity in Starbucks.

Lo and behold, my favourtie geek buddy, the venerated Tiara Maskara, the Maori queen from the land of sheep and friscian cows appear online.

We chatted and we chatted and we chatted.

The time says 4:15 PM.

"I gotta go now, I think my turn is up"

It's quite absurd
It's quite absurd
It's quite absurd

I return... the counter says '290 something'

Sigh...

This is remotely absurd
This is remotely absurd
This is remotely absurd

I return to Starbucks... but without a cup of coffee at hand, I sat on a bench from a slight distance...
The airport reception on my mac is weak...well, I can't complain, I'm stealing a signal.

"Hi, I am back"

We launch video conferencing... I can't hear shit, she can't hear anything. We saw each other and exhanged compliments on how good the other person looks. I'd like to believe that when she says 'you look really good', she really means it; but when I said that... I really did mean it.

Tiara Maskara showed me her daughter... she looks really good. I think she will be worried when her daughter grows up since she would probably look really good. She would have a problem keeping the boys at bay.

We can't hear shit...
The pictures are jerky
Oh...This can't be.

This is so fucking absurd
This is so fucking absurd
This is so fucking absurd

I closed the video conference
It is giving me a headache.
The sight of myself in video.
Sort of makes me sick.

I returned to the counter again.
I checked the number.
I returned to the counter again.
I checked the number.
I returned to the counter again.
I checked the number

I want to vomit blood

This is so fucking absurd
This is so fucking absurd
This is so fucking absurd

I finally returned for one last time and my turn is six numbers to go.

5:20 PM... "336"

"Hello, how are you today, I would like to book the following flights for the following days...yadayadayadayadayada"

Total amount... RM XXX

This is so fucking absurd
This is so fucking absurd
This is so fucking absurd

"But that is so much more than when I checked online an hour ago"

"If you want it cheap, you'll have to book it online"

Uncontrollable rage.... hyperventilates.

"You mean to tell me that you make me wait for more than 2 hours and then you want me to pay so much more."

Uncontrollable rage.... hyperventilates.

"Well, it is your choice. If you choose to buy over the counter."

Uncontrollable rage... hyperventilates... walks away... forget about it.

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Such is the world I live in.... I cannot afford a credit card, therefore I buy over the counter with cash.

Is this how it works... "Since you're too poor to afford a credit card, we're going to make you wait for hours on end. No! we don't need to give you seats while you wait. You'll wait for hours on end and then we'll charge you much more for your ticket. Well, someones gotta pay extra... If you don't, whose going to subsidize the cheap tickets that are purchased by rich people with credit cards. Hey... It's not my fault that you're poor."

Ahhh...21st century commercial imperialist mantra 'Steal from the poor and give to the rich".

I hyperventilate. I call effasyafizadesa. I bitch on end. I hyperventilate.

effasyafizadesa: "breathe slwoly, breathe slowly... take slow deep breaths"

This is so fucking absurd
This is so fucking absurd
This is so fucking absurd

I stop breathing altogether.


warning: not breathing may result in dying.