For the past week or so Shorty has been looking all around the house for her laptop charger that has been mysteriously missing. At first her hunt for it started with a “have you seen my laptop charger?”
and as time went by with the charger unseen she went
“Where’s my charger where’s my charger?”.
Then eventually it got to the point where she started staking claim over my charger
“Is this my charger? Are you sure you didn’t take my charger?”.
Finally after a week of borrowing my charger every other day, she succumbed to buying a new charger. We walked into the Apple store today only to find out that the price of a new charger was over RM300.
This is the conversation that took place after:
Me: WHAT?! RM350?? Wait wait hold up.. think about this.
Shorty: Why? But I need it.
Me: Maybe we can look online for a second hand one.
Shorty: No but I don’t have time. I’m going to the US this Friday already.
Me: But it’s RM350 ! I mean … that’s almost as much as it cost for me to buy my “gold” in my iPad robot game and I’m taking months to think about spending that money.
Shorty: Really? You want to go there?
And she gave me this face…
Me: Uhh…
Shorty: How much have you spent on your robot game so far? USD100? Or was it USD 200? (It’s actually USD 300.
Me: Ok… I didn’t think that one through.
Shorty: No really… how much again?
Me: I walked right into this one didn’t I?
Shorty: Dare to compare some more huh? Some more I am spending money on a charger that I need to use. You? On some pixels on a screen.
Me: *keeps quiet*
At this point I realize no good was going to come out of this conversation so I kept my mouth shut before I dug a deeper hole for myself.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space