The more you want to be discreet, the bigger the announcement...

I am one who do not like discussing matters, especially private ones, in public places like coffeeshops or lifts. Or when we gossip about others, because we can never tell who within hearing distance, knows the subject of gossip or if we do not know the person, he or she might be around! The worse culprits are those who pass racist comments even though there are several of the race concerned around, assuming they do not understand the language. Belief me, especially in Perak, many other races can not only understand Chinese dialects but speak better than some Chinese who are not of that dialect!

Anyway, in a supermarket, there are certain items like undies and so on which still make one uncomfortable at the check-out point. But a lady got double of the big doses of embarrassment...

A lady was picking up several items at a discount store. When she finally got up to the checker, she learned that one of her items had no price tag.

Imagine her embarrassment when the checker got on the intercom and boomed out for all the store to hear: "PRICE CHECK ON LANE 13,TAMPAX, SUPERSIZE." That was bad enough, but somebody at the rear of the store apparently misunderstood the word "tampax" for "THUMBTACKS."

In a business-like tone, a voice boomed back over the intercom: "DO YOU WANT THE KIND YOU PUSH IN WITH YOUR THUMB OR THE KIND YOU POUND IN WITH A HAMMER?"
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