The other day I was at Pantai Hospital to buy more LactoGG probiotic for Victoria and although I was quite sure I had enough cash to pay for the supplements, I queued up at the ATM machine to withdraw more money, just to be safe.
I was third in queue. In front of me, was a Malay woman, and in front of her - the first in queue was a chinese woman with a bandana wrapped on her head. She looked like a leukemia patient, pardon me for my quick judgement.
After the chinese woman finished with her turn, she stepped aside, but very near, uncomfortably too near to the ATM machine, seemingly busy with putting paper slips and rearranging her wallet, all these while the Malay woman did her transaction oblivious to the chinese woman beside her.
At this juncture I noticed also that the Chinese woman was holding brand new notes, and my immediate thoughts was "Wow! This machine is giving out new notes in conjunction with CNY. Maybe I should withdraw more (since I'm a sucker for new notes)"
As I was eyeing the Chinese woman, I told myself that if she still stood there when it's my turn, I will tell her to move away. Better be rude and safe then polite and sorry, right?
When the Malay woman left, I walked to towards the ATM machine, at that point the Chinese woman ask me if I could help her transfer RM250 to a 3rd party account, and she will pay me back in cash. Without looking at her, I quickly brushed her off and mumbled, "No, I don't want" (kinda kick myself for saying that. Who would be saying, "No I don't want to help?" I should have said "No thank you") Just as I guessed, the woman still stood there, and I had to gesture her to move away.
On hindsight, this machine was no cash-deposit machine. If she meant she will pay me back, that means I would have to transfer cash, MY cash to another account, or maybe get jampi-ed for answering her, or looking in her eyes, or touching her money. What about her new notes? Maybe they were not real, because they were really really new and shiny. Even looking at it made me tempted to withdraw more, haha!
But oh well, the silly paranoia in me helped. Just a word of caution out there to everyone, especially during this festive season.
Chipotle Chicken
17 hours ago
4 comments:
Only God knows what that woman was up to. It could be she was a con woman and it could be that poor fella indeed had cancer and was so blur blur (after all the chemo/treatment) and wanted to transfer money to someone and she didn't know how to do it. And eh, I don't know how to use cash to transfer too coz I only do it online haha!
why cant she do it herself? Something fishy
I think u did the right thing,Irene! Nowadays, very near to CNY,a lot of unwanted incident happen! Here at Taiping, the thief comes early in the morning while u are opening the gate to work or sending children to school! damn,scary! they know everything! or else, they monitor n spy on you while u r in the bank! SMS someone in his gang to wait outside and snatch ur thing! Must be extra careful!
u did the right thing. i always felt uneasy when people stand too near to the ATM machine when I was doing my transaction.
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