A few hours back, I was kinda feeling a tad too dehydrated and picked up a case of bottled water at Toa Payoh central NTUC. A woman who evidently is a sales promoter insisted on knowing why I wasn’t picking lower priced water instead. I could sense that she was thinking, I’m not too bright. I could buy more and Water is water, she noted.
The first defense that came to mind was, “If I’m dumb enough to buy water, I’m certainly dumb enough to pay too much for it!”
But that didn’t feel right.
My second impulse was to say something along the lines of “My problem, your problem?”.
That didn’t feel right either. Sounds like a secondary school kid throwing a tantrum.
My third option was just as wrong, and it would have gone like this “At least the water i am buying isn’t shit water assigned an economic value.”
Too risky, was doomed to fail from start and had a tinge of politics.
After I left, I thought I should have said something like “As a Sales promoter should know, research has shown that the color and design of a container influences the taste. The cheaper bottles send the subliminal suggestion of day old puddle water with a hint of excrement.”
But I didn’t say any of those clever things. Instead, I mumbled something about being in a hurry, paid the S$0.80 and shuffled away. I am never going to buy things from Toa Payh Central NTUC anymore. Dumb sales people.
Cheers.
ps: I still drink overpriced water, but I no longer enjoy it.
