An interesting thing happened yesterday when I followed Nick to get his "CNY" shoes. He had decided to try on a pair of Adidas Goodyear Street shoes that were brown with suede trimmings. The shoes were driving shoes and Nick has been planning to replace his Puma ones (there's a hole in the side!). The thing about the shoes was that the suede bits were made of pigskin. Saying that, you can imagine how delicately the matter was handled. Literally.
We were at the Leisure Mall branch of Royal Sporting House and the employees yesterday were all working very hard to cater to the CNY crowd. The staff on duty yesterday were all Malays. Here's the rather amusing part. Due to the shoe having pigskin bits, they held it like it was coated with poo and carried the plague. Nick and I couldn't help but be amused.
When we were paying for the shoes, the girl at the counter had to take the shoes out of the box to scan it. I tried to be nice and told her that the suede was the pigskin leather and the rest was synthetic leather. She in turn asked me, rather rudely, "You macam mana tau?" ("How do you know?"). what would I gain from conning her into touching pigskin? Sheesh!
Anyhow, tomorrow, I'll be sitting for my marketing paper. Goodness! I hope I fare well... wish me luck folks!
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