Not so nice people and nice people

The flea market on Saturday was a little disappointing but i've been expecting that.
It has been quite a while since the flea markets first started. I guess it is pretty norm that the 'fire' is slowly fading, well.. at least with the locals' Gen x and y that is. The filipinos were still at large. So were the aunties.

I was pretty lucky coz it rained only in the morning on Saturday, much to my delight. In the afternoon when i started at 3pm, the sun was scorching hot almost throughout which resulted some tan lines on the arms and the face is definitely 2-3 shades darker! *sobs* :(

Initially, i thought of staying till 10.30pm but it was too tiring. I tell ya, if i were to do this for 7 days in a row, 2-3kgs of fats will absolutely melt off! Heh. Hb and i left around 9pm. I still had about 30-40% left over and i just left it there but not without shouting, free free!

The crowd came rushing madly faster than you could say cheese! I was pretty amused. One minute, there was hardly anyone anymore and then another minute, there were more than 10 of them. Grin. But seriously, given the price that i was selling, i really rather give them away than to continue battling with other stalls. I was, indeed the stall with the lowest price.

At one time, it was 2 for $1!

Not earrings or what but tops and bottoms!

It was pretty frustrating actually even though most of the stuff weren't mine. Imagine selling a bottom for $0.50 when you got it for more than $50?

When it was still a dollar, they die die also want you to lower it to $0.50 and then some, when you said it was $5, they will only pay $3 and then tried to suck up by paying compliments, act merry and scoot off.

I really rather donate.

Yeah, no more flea-ing for me. The tan, the weariness, the time and the frustration aren't worth it.

What was worst is the people in charge who came checking. I didn't have that problem 2 years ago. But last Sat, these people were trying to act macho and garang. You know, by trying to search for a bone in an egg like that! *roll eyes*

They are the information peeps if i'm not wrong. I guess it was because flea market time is the only time they can show their 'power'? Haha.. and so they did. They even left a pretty not-so-nice-n-friendly remark which i cannot stand at all to my neighbour stall - 'make sure you move your shoes inside. I w.i.l.l [yes, she stressed on this word] come back and check later!'

Sheesshh... if she had said that to me, i think i would have rolled my eyes at her!

Firstly, the shoes weren't blocking any walk way or anything. Just because it was outside the line, she had to say that. And for myself, she told me to empty the boxes which i used to put my clothes in, saying boxes are not allowed. We were supposed to dump them onto the floor. Ha!

Damn ridiculous right.. and that was like 7.30pm already!!

I didn't quite budge.. i had 6 boxes and i emptied one before i decided not to anymore. Simply because i find it ridiculous! Really.. i don't see the point at all. Why no boxes? Why must dump onto the floor? My boxes were about the same size, in the line, didn't make searching and finding difficult and most importantly not harming anyone/anything. So why no boxes?

I would have emptied if if she had said it nicely and with a smile. But she didn't. It was as though she was trying to intimidate us, the sellers who were renting from them.

Anyway, as much as i dislike flea-ing anymore, i'm glad i did it, twice. Because i hardly get to interact with others, it is through flea-ing that i see the many colours of the humans. Mostly greedy and some, really nice people who will not take advantage of you.

Sometimes, it is beyond your imagination that people who will drive you up the wall by bargaining and more bargaining are people who are well dressed ones. Then people who you think might bargain, they just smile and take it as it is.