hmm, watched this taiwanese variety show on tv yest... the ppl were discussing abt whether ppl are courteous...

there is this guy who work as a waiter says that there was once a customer who is super unreasonable(rude, shout at the waiter for nth, think he's so big, demand for a change of the dish served cos the food are not placed as nicely as he expected it to be etc), the fellow waiters and even the chef decided to dirtied the food with dirt on the floor before serving it to the customer...

u reap what u sowed...

told my mom abt this incident, then she told me abt this incident that happens in sg, like a food vendor who spit into the customer's food as the customer is super unreasonable... the food seller called into hte radio station to discuss this bold action with the dj... well, then many wrote in to the newspapers' forum to criticise the person's action...

well, my view is, u reap what u sowed... well, if u are not a bad customer, i believe no one will bother to be evil to u... thou i feel that spitting is very unhygenic.. i certainly feel the customer, no matter how unreasonble he/she is, should not deserve this and it is wrong of the food vendor to spit since diseases may spread... but lets put aside the right and wrong and review the incident... if the customer were to be nicer in the first place, none of these would have happened...

even if u are a customer, and u paid for the service, dun think of urself as a GOD... dun demand too much of others cos the ohters who are serving u are mere humans, not angels...

out of so many things confucius said, i believed strongly in one thing...

"ji suo bu yu, wu shi yu ren"

well, it means that wad u feel is undesirable and dun wan it to happen to u, u don't inflict it upon others..

put yourselves in other's shoe before u act, when u are the customer, think, of how the service provider will feel if u get too demanding... when u are the service provider, think of wad u will feel, if u paid and get lousy service, or get food that was spit into...

same thing applies to many conflicts arnd the world, if both parties were to put themselves in each other's shoe, i supposed many conflicts would not have even surfaced in the first place, and many conflicts would have been resloved...

well, lets start it with ourselves, before u act, think of this principle, think "would i mind if someone do the same thing to me?" if everyone were to do their own part, and perhaps peace will spread...