Carrefour (pronounce it care-four or carry-four, i dont give a damn) is one of the three main hypermarket thats recently sprouted like wild mushrooms after rain in Malaysia (When i say recently, i'm really saying about 4-5 years back so dont dish me about what the defination of recently is! ). Given the fact that we malaysians love our food, and adding the element of shopping to it, it really is no surprise that hypermarkets appear to be the ultimate saturday night hang-out spot for families, especially the large ones which includes ppl from the last 3 generations.
However, it is here that u can truly find the malaysian boleh spirit as well. Being loyal citizens as we are, it is astounding to what extend we will go to fulfill this aim. When i say malaysia boleh by the way, i really do mean 'boleh' to every single extend, be it rushing and shoving your way through people who actually bother to queue just to get the freshest batch of potato bread, or peeling the skins of onions just to see if its alright and not rotten inside. Yesterday however, has got to be the mother of all boleh spirit!
It seems that someone from the marketing department came up with the brilliant idea of placing pringles along side railings of the escalator as a marketing technique to get more people to buy more pringles. Unfortunately, they underestimated the power of boleh. It took just one customer to assume that the pringles placed there were a generous gift by Carrefour to be freely eaten. After that, it was a free for all as the pringles fought for their lives against the uneducated and the thick-skins (two cannibalistic tribes on planet Earth). I stared in horror at the aftermath of it all, cans of pringles that once stood tall and proud now line the rails with gaping holes at the top. Some even had their innards sucked out of them, then had their skins tucked back as best they could to hide this hideous act from preying eyes. Long live the boleh spirit!
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