what's wrong with the people in this country??

in the past one week, i witnessed the following incidents:

• at a food court in town, guy buys chicken rice from famous stall. cashier gives him change. he stuffs change into pockets but not realising, drops a few notes. cleaner auntie bends down to pick up the notes and to my horrors, stuffs them into her OWN pocket!

• at a local fast food restaurant, a nerdy teenage boy walks to the 'self-service' coffee/tea refill counter and grabs a handful packets of pepper... 'wow, he likes it hot' i told myself. he turns around and puts those packets of pepper into his pocket. then i realised what's happening! he's 'stealing'!! yes, i call that stealing especially since he did not buy food from the restaurant and even if he did, what gives him the right to take so many packets of pepper *yes, pepper is cheap but that's besides the point*. never mind, he does that two or three more times and when his mum comes over, she asks him to take the 'milk' which, incidentally is known as the 'creamer', not 'milk' you idiot! he grabs another handful and once again, puts into his pocket - deep pockets he has! obviously, my reaction was not fast enough... otherwise, i would have whipped out my camera phone to take a photo of the guilty parties! they walk out of the fast food restaurant with ONE breakfast set meal and lots of pepper and creamer!

• within the next thirty minutes, another auntie walks in from one side of the restauarant, grabs ALL the packets of sugar at the self-service counter and walks out from the other side. yes auntie, that is definitely STEALING!!

• to avoid the highway jam on monday morning, we decided to take the service road to work. since it was a single lane road with lots of humps, we were behind a whole string of cars by the time we reached the halfway point of the service road. then came two impatient drivers - first a beemer... he overtook about five cars and only swerved back into the lane because of oncoming traffic from the other direction. next was a subaru who did the same thing. why can't they just following the traffic order and go along with the flow??

honestly, i don't know what to make of these incidents... isolated? i don't think so... it makes me feel ashamed to be carrying the same passport as these people!