Respected Tissue
The seemingly lowly and always taken for granted tissue is very much respected here in Singapore. For most of us, we do not even give it a thought, a tissue is a tissue and we often take it for granted, throw it around, wastefully use it, don’t bother how it is doing and discard it at will. The only instances where people give it the higest importance is when you really have to go or when we are eating and there is no running water and it’s not there in which we would scramble around to look for a roll or even a precious few, After which when we have already done our business we thank the inventors for inventing such.
However, as I have stated earlier, here in singapore, it is very much respected. Try to go to a hawker, specially during peak times of lunch and dinner where table space is coveted, you will discover a lot of empty seats with tissue on it. No one takes a seat with a tissue on it. No one would even take it, move it, throw it or even look at it for more than 5 seconds. Even if the tissue does not have a name of the owner or any indication of why it was there. The only thing on everybody’s mind is respect the tissue and move on.
Such is the power of a tissue here, regardless of the maker or distributor, a tissue is a tissue and it has to be respected. So, if you don’t know yet or unaware, now you know and show due respect, specially when you are in Singapore.
I would like to acknowledge that the inspiration for this post came from the mens toilet wherein 2 of my colleagues where talking about this topic(such an approriate place for an inspiration considering the topic of this post).
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