The Waffle Girl
I recalled this incident that has always tickled me. The incident of the missing waffle piece...It happened in my final year in university. it was a very stressful time with a project to complete and my usual lunch hour was 5pm. One day, in lab, i asked YS "hey i am going to the canteen to get a quick bite, do u want to come along?"
"Err, ok i have 10minutes"
We headed to the canteen, there i bought snacks and she ordered a waffle. When she received it, she gave it a kind of quick inspection and immediately said to me,
"hey, why is there a hole here?" Pointing to the corner of the waffle where a little square was missing.
It was obviously because when the waffle was being made, there wasn' enough waffle mix to fulfill, oops i mean fill, the last "square". But YS was clearly unhappy about it, i could tell from that crease in her forehead.
She turned back to the stall, and i heard her asking the waffle seller in mandarin about the "hole" in the waffle. i thought to myself that this was going to take quite a while, and also feeling slightly embarrassed, i took a seat. Meanwhile, i could hear the waffle seller trying to explain to her that its ok, the waffle is still edible, it was just something that happened in the making process... (i guess if u like hand made stuff, there really isn't that much QC).
After some time, she turned to leave the stall. The frown was still there though. One the way back to the lab, she told me, in a very dissatisfied manner'
"such poor quality waffle! I will never buy from them again!"
Boy! did she sound totally crossed.
And i thought she was so wierd.
By some stroke of fate, we are now working in the same company. She continues to baffle me, but we get along pretty ok. I like to remind her of the Waffle Incident to which she has absolutely no recollection of. She insists that I made it up and planted such a memory in her head! argh.. women!!!!
She accuses me of remembering such wierd incidents about her ("Why do you always remember such wierd things that i don't recall?"). I tell her because those are the ones which really stand out. Which really makes her different from everyone else. Seriously, how many people do u know, will go confront someone over a waffle with a missing square?
posted by eline @ 11:40 PM
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