Who?

Bobo's rarely talks about work. Except that she's half buried under it, but still insists on procrastinating. But she's a little pissed about this little word that keeps appearing at work....

Scene 1
Colleague 1: Hey we need some help over at our department today. Heard that you're free at the moment. Come over and lend a hand?
Colleague 2: Why? I thought you guys always had enough staff? Who didn't come?
Colleague 1: ... *hesitates*
Colleague 2: Tell me la who?


Scene 2
Admin Guy: Hey Someone touched my com and it's going crazy now... think it's going to crash, take a look will ya?
IT Guy: What the hell? Who did it?
Admin Guy: I don't know. I wasn't here yesterday and they used my com.
IT Guy: Who?


Scene 3
Secretary: Boss, there was a mistake in the report the other department submitted yesterday. In order for us to withdraw the report, we'd have to do it by 5 p.m. It's now 4.25.
Boss: Whose mistake?
Secretary: I'm not sure who exactly, Boss.
Boss: Go and find out who and ask the person to come and see me.


WTF WHO? WHO? WHO?

Does it matter? Sure Bobo's a bimbo who equally nosy as anyone else. But WHO is for coffeetalk when you don't have a crisis at hand. WHO is for gossip time when you are just plain lazing about. WHO is when you want to evaluate someone's performance... AFTER you've bloody solved the problem and everything's well.

This stupid word is responsible for all the finger pointing and the fact that no one really dares to take responsibility for the things they say and do. It's also responsible for all the "red tape" that one has to go through to get things implemented. It's the reason why people don't just press "reply to" when they are replying an email but they press "REPLY ALL" and jam up everyone's freakin inbox.

Don't be mistaken, Bobo isn't saying that finding the culprit is not important. It's just that when there are more important things at hand, settle those first. She dislikes that BLOODY word when it's said at the bloody wrong times.
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Today, this little weakling of a bimbo was carrying 10kg worth of stuff, waiting for a cab in the scorching heat from the midday sun. She was so torn between putting the items on the dirty path and the fact that her arms might be torn from their sockets soon.. (yes she's that weak) It didn't help that the plastic bag in which most of the items were in looked like it was going to tear. She was frantically trying to flag for a cab.... when she noticed a woman just behind her.

Then she noticed the woman walking past her...

Then she noticed the woman about 40m in front of her...

And the woman putting out her hand to flag down a cab.

A cab which was meant for Bobo.


Immediately... these sprang into Bobo's mind...
1) Bobo wanted to jump onto the road in front of the cab to stop it.
2) Bobo wanted to hurl the plastic bag filled with things at the cab.
3) Bobo wanted to kick the cab as it goes past.
4) Bobo thought of ditching her things (which no one would want anyway) and rushing up to pull the woman out of the cab.
5) Bobo wanted to rush forward into the cab and tell the driver her destination anyway... and probably dump her stuff onto the backseat where the woman would be.


Of these... the very level-headed Bobo... did nothing but hurl a single line of profanity out loud and glare at the woman as the cab went past.

Ahhh... she relishes the day when she could punish cab-snatchers.

It's one thing to "accidentally" flag down a cab in front of a person who had been waiting for some time... it's another to purposely WALK past that person so that you could flag in front of her. Especially when she can't really move.

There was once when Bobo was in a hurry and wanted to take a cab. She saw this guy waiting for a cab and waited (impatiently) slightly behind the guy. The guy turned and smiled at Bobo and Bobo managed a smile back, secretly wishing that he would decide to take the public bus instead. A cab from the opposite side of the road made a U-turn, went past the guy and stopped in front of Bobo even when she didn't flag. She called out to the guy and told him to get in. The cab went off...

But only for a bit, it then reversed again and the guy asked where Bobo was off to. Apparently, for some reason, the cab driver was stopping for Bobo as he did not notice the guy. The guy felt a little guilty and decided to give Bobo a ride since it was on the way to his destination.

Free ride in exchange for some courtesy.