those irritating rude people

Oh my goodness. Some people are just so bloody rude. I don't think they are acquainted with manners at all.

My friend, S, and I were having dinner at this famous hawker centre a few hours ago. And we bumped into these incredibly rude aunties. 6 of them, to be exact. Who were already hitting their 50s. Or rather, some of them were already in their 50s. They wer so incredibly rude, I have to wonder how they learnt about manners at all.

So, we were almost done with our food, but we wanted a second round. So we were having a rest, when these four aunties came and sat down at the table beside us. That was fine, until two more of them arrived. And started hanging around our table, silently pressurising us to leave.

As if that wasn't enough, one of them just happily sat herself down beside S. That would have been fine, if not for the fact that she didn't even enquire if the seat was taken. Not to mention that the space was small, so S was squashed to the side. And S got very irritated. But that was still alright. Until I left to order some food.

Then, one of the aunties just took my bag and shifted it so she could sit at my place. I mean, how rude could someone get? She didn't even ask, she just took my bag and shifted it aside. Without so much as an ''Excuse me, could you move your stuff so I could sit?". That seriously pissed S off. So she told them nicely that we were not done with our food. But they didn't understand English, and their Mandarin wasn't very good either, so they said very loudly and rudely that they had some more people coming and wanted to sit. So S had a tiny argument with them about that.

When I returned, the four aunties were bitching about us in Hokkien, which is a dialect. I don't understand much of it, but I get when they said we were stingy and rude. That set me off, and I turned to them and said 'I'm sorry, but you could just have asked nicely, and we would have moved. But you didn't ask, and you just took our stuff, moved it and sat down. That was very rude." I don't think either of the aunties understood it properly, but one of them started arguing back like hell. She was the only fightercock in that group, but her English wasn't very good and I couldn't understand half of what she was saying so I gave up.

Until I heard them really starting to bitch, in Hokkien, using damn vulgar language. I got bloody riled up when I heard them taunting us, making fun of whatever we told them about being rude and having manners, and saying that we were apparently too "high-classed for a place like this and shouldn't be here at all". So I turned to the fightercock and said "I don't think your mother taught you any manners, did she, or you wouldn't be like this."

I mean, I acknowledge their point, that we could have let them share our seats. And I gladly would have, if they had asked politely instead of just fucking shifting my stuff without even asking. That was damn fucking rude, I felt. What's more, they were already what, 50 odd? Why the hell would they wanna argue with two 21 year old girls? Doesn't that embarrass them even more? Didn't their parents ever teach them to enquire politely before taking anyone's place? So fucking rude.

So, I came up with a very good way of leaving. We waited for a couple to come along, looking for a place to seat. Then we very graciously got up, and kindly and politely offered them our seats. And before we left, S told the lady taking our place that the aunties were irritating and rude and would irritate them.

And in doing so, the aunties were kept separated from their other friends, because we gave our seats up to another couple.

Frankly. I felt those aunties were damn freaking rude. Ever since I was young, my parents instilled in me this habit of asking before sharing a table, and of saying please and thank you. Didn't those people teach these stuff to their kids? Or were they just born plain rude. Someone please enlighten me. So irritatingly rude.

So fucking rude and ill mannered.