Exactly a week, ago my ex-roommate from our Bachelor days came over to Terengganu. She and a couple of other friends had made arrangements to enjoy the sand and sun at Lang Tengah Island.
So we met for dinner in town, after which J and I went to a shop selling mobile phones. Apparently, one of J’s friends knows the boss of the shop, so he said he could get any phone from that shop for an additional RM50 discount or something. So we went to the shop. Plus the fact that there are not many choices in town, OK? Both in terms of shops selling mobile phones AND phone models, OK?
Anyway, I had the salesman retrieve the Samsung E530, E730 and another model I cannot remember from the display case. Maybe it did not catch my attention as much as the E530 and E730 did.
When I was busy trying to figure out by myself the differences between the 3 phones, I overheard the following:
“What time are you closing today?” J asked.
“Soon la. At about 9:30pm to 10pm. Wanna watch World Cup la. But boss said cannot close shop too early,” the salesman replied.
“Ouh? You wanna close shop and then go watch World Cup?”
“Of course! You don’t watch it?”
“Ehm.. Don’t really have time to follow all matches closely la. What’s the score now?”
“The last I saw, it was 1-0. Now, I’m not so sure.” He signalled to the other salesman to go to the back of the shop, where the TV was located, to check the current score.
And I was like, “Hello, can one minute pass by without anybody mentioning anything related to the World Cup?”
“Hhehe, no,” J said, smiling cunningly.
Speaking of which, Aunty Lilian also blogged about a similar situation. In fact, I read her post, which reminded me of my own encounter with people who have the word “World Cup” hanging sooo loosely by their mouths *winks*
Ouh, in case you are wondering, no, I did not get myself a new phone. But I left the shop with a clearer picture of what kind of phone I am looking for *smiles*
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