Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Friends and Strangers
I collect watches and have my favourite haunts for me to look for watches to buy. I don't just buy new watches but also old, second hand watches. Why I buy them, well I am collector of sorts, and the same time what I had bought I had not sold any... I don't think I would want to sell any of them yet.
I had been doing this for a while and have a hefty collection, let's just say that I can put on a watch a day for the next few months.
That aside... I have this neighbour who has a peculiar habit whenever we meet or gather. His eyes would be on my wrist and on several occassions would insist on having a closer look of the watch I have on. And on several occassion he'd remarked that he would want to buy exactly what I have. To this very day he behaves the same way.
Now fast forward a bit... on many occassions he would insists on knowing where I bought my watches, well one place is e-bay, the other is at mudah.my, then of course there are several shops that I frequent too.
These shops that I frequent, the owners have become friends, as not only I bought from them, I sent some watches for servicing to them, and also on days that I am free I would just drop by and 'talk shop' with them, along the way we are friends rather than just customer-vendors.
It brings me a bit of benefit where I can get discounts on watches that other walk-in customers won't get... and this is where it gets interesting.
This neighbour of mine, upon knowing the shops that I go to, would go to them and along the way throw my name around and insisting or expecting to get the same discount that I enjoy.
Recently I happen to visit the shop and the taukey friend told me about it and I asked did my neighbour get the same discount? His response was, of course not, coz the neighbour was not a friend....
Speed of trust?
visit my scribd - rutz.zainal
I had been doing this for a while and have a hefty collection, let's just say that I can put on a watch a day for the next few months.
That aside... I have this neighbour who has a peculiar habit whenever we meet or gather. His eyes would be on my wrist and on several occassions would insist on having a closer look of the watch I have on. And on several occassion he'd remarked that he would want to buy exactly what I have. To this very day he behaves the same way.
Now fast forward a bit... on many occassions he would insists on knowing where I bought my watches, well one place is e-bay, the other is at mudah.my, then of course there are several shops that I frequent too.
These shops that I frequent, the owners have become friends, as not only I bought from them, I sent some watches for servicing to them, and also on days that I am free I would just drop by and 'talk shop' with them, along the way we are friends rather than just customer-vendors.
It brings me a bit of benefit where I can get discounts on watches that other walk-in customers won't get... and this is where it gets interesting.
This neighbour of mine, upon knowing the shops that I go to, would go to them and along the way throw my name around and insisting or expecting to get the same discount that I enjoy.
Recently I happen to visit the shop and the taukey friend told me about it and I asked did my neighbour get the same discount? His response was, of course not, coz the neighbour was not a friend....
Speed of trust?
visit my scribd - rutz.zainal
Ramadhan
Tomorrow will be a week of fasting in the month of Ramadhan, you don't actually feel it unless you are counting the days.
For some people this is also the month to feast, and hence pig themselves out at breaking of fast buffets in hotels and restaurants and paying through their noses, costing more of what they would spend eating in a day with that one particular feast. Well who am I to say what they do are not correct, at the same time I have my own right to my own opinion don't I?
visit my scribd - rutz.zainal
For some people this is also the month to feast, and hence pig themselves out at breaking of fast buffets in hotels and restaurants and paying through their noses, costing more of what they would spend eating in a day with that one particular feast. Well who am I to say what they do are not correct, at the same time I have my own right to my own opinion don't I?
visit my scribd - rutz.zainal
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