I was at the Thai Express in Jurong Point with Cheryl, Pamy, Amos and Chang, and we were looking for seats for 5. As most of the tables were for 4, the waitress proceeded to ask us to wait.
However, when she came back, it turned out her sense of humour was nothing short of weird. By weird, I don't mean witty weird, cool weird, or so weird I'm practically in love at your creativity kind of weird. By weird, I mean so weird all you can do is look at each other in utter bewilderment, with an expression that is a cross between "did she just say that?", "just how are we supposed to respond?" and the face you make when you tap someone from behind thinking its a friend only to realise to your horror that it's that creepy and silmy person from your elective class.
Here's what she asked us.
"So, would you like any baby chairs?"
Hello, my name is Awkward! Nice to meet you!
Yeah, that's exactly what she said. The last time I saw baby chairs, they were made specifically for babies. Unless someone has a baby I didn't know about that I can't see, we should not in any case be needing one. Such a comment was actually rather inappropriate because it insinuated that the girls in our group looked old enough to need baby chairs.
Now, which part of our group looked like we could use a baby chair? Or did she happen to see that I was actually wearing Pampers underneath my berms?
I'd like to know, do you ask every other NTU student who eats at Thai Express whether they need baby chairs? Small wonder the establishment hasn't folded yet, since you are indirectly saying that on top of being diligent in their studies NTU students work hard to rack up the baby count. Maybe that's flattering in your book because it means we know how to work and play hard, but just because you work for an outlet selling spicy cuisine it doesn't give you the right to assume that we have such spicy lives. Thank you very much.
Despite her first joke having fallen totally flat on its face, she didn't stop there though. That's the thing about such people, they just try too hard. After showing us to our seats, we realised that Chang had nowhere to put his tripod bag. There was some space behind the table that was actually a partition made up of landscaping plants between ThaiExpress and the next restaurant.
She went like "Careful don't lose it in the jungle! Haha."
The jungle she was talking about was a plant partition no more than half a metre wide, and hardly the most abundant of foilage. It would be techinically impossible to lose anything in that jungle, except the point of her jokes, which would be lost on anyone.
She should enrol in NTU. She needs to learn some "Management with Humour", and in addition, she would realise that life in NTU is not that tomyum spicy, so she can cut the stupid baby chair jokes.