Jan-chan’s Tidbits

Ok the title is a little misleading but I’ll explain about that later. This post is about an incident I witnessed last month while driving in the Central Square parking lot. For those that don’t know where it is, Central Square is the little mall complex right across from Aberdeen Centre in Richmond. Here’s the Google Map location.

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I happened to be at Lido for lunch with a couple of friends and took the Hazelbridge Way exit on our way out. While heading towards the exit, there was a Land Rover 2 cars a head of us and a van (can’t remember what make it was) that’s on the opposite traffic direction. I couldn’t see who signaled first but it appeared both of these cars were waiting for the same parking spot.

Once the parking spot became available, the van pulled in. Now this had happened to me before and I was furious. I think I cursed the driver for a good 2-3 minutes while I storm off to look for another spot. However, the driver of the Land Rover took another way of dealing with this. She pulled up behind the van (thank god for that because now we can finally move towards the exit, was stuck there for about 2 minutes), got out and opened the van’s passenger door and started yelling at the driver inside. I couldn’t hear what was going on but from her expression, it’s probably not “please give me my spot back”.

By this time I was at the exit waiting for a chance to pull out and from the rear view mirror, I saw she got back into the Land Rover and to my surprise, the van pulled out. Now I’m really curious as to what she had said to the driver of the van. However, I think I would probably do the same if I was in the same situation. Who knows what she’d do if I don’t give her the spot?

Ok now as for the name. As my friends and I watch this unfold, we were thinking “Hey lets take a video and post it on YouTube!” Obviously we had watched too many of those videos from Hong Kong posted by people that happened to witness “interesting” scenes, like the guy doing some kung fu thing on the MTR and the boy who wouldn’t give up the empty seat next to him on the bus. The videos have mostly been named by the location plus either “boy”, “girl”, “old man”, “grandpa” … etc. So as a joke, we thought we’d call this incident the “Central Square Girl” or “Lido Girl”, lol.