a Journey

Yesterday whilst helping out at the IMC (Int'l Muay Thai) event at PS, someone invited himself to sit next to me. Because I did not bother to ask his name, let's just call him, the purple idiot guy (PIG).
Never mind that he took a chair from the audience area and plopped himself down next to me as I tried to work at the event.
Never mind that he was blocking pedestrian flow.
Never mind that he said that he doesn't care what the people who hired me think.
Never mind.

Because what irked me the most, was when he asked me: So are you rich?
WTF kind of question is that?
Alright, maybe it was what came prior to this. I had complimented two Korean ladies who happened to be standing in front of me. He glanced them up and down and turned to me, and said: " They look rich. Are you rich too?"
I smiled dumbly, shook my head, and wished that a lightening bolt would strike him.
He probably took it as a good sign, because he asked next: "Do you go clubbing?"
"Velvet," I said, through clenched teeth with the smile of a clown plastered on my face.
"Wow," he said, almost getting a neck sprain from trying to stare into my face and nauseating me in the process. "You must be rich. How do you get in?"
"I pay the entrance fee of (only) SGD 20," at this point in time, all I could think of was: where was Joe?!
"Is your dad like a shareholder of Zouk?"
"No. I think you are blocking the way."
"Oh really?"

If you are wondering how the torture was so prolonged, it was because my rescuer Joe was too busy to come by, and when he did, he was laughing at PIG and the anguished look of practised patience on my face. I couldn't stab him in the eye try as I might, because there were media around. We were supposed to generate positive publicity, Perhaps if it had been a quieter day, I should have. Because the clincher came when he asked:

PIG: What's your name?
Me: Sophie
PIG: EH, why sound a bit Malay? *makes a face at the M-word*

You know what? I wish I had worn heels yesterday. MF. At least I could have claimed temporary insanity by constricted blood flow to the head.