Behind Bars. Almost.

Goodness gracious me. I was almost jailed today… and for what one might query. It’s for not paying me mrt fare.

In the papers today, one can be jailed the maximum of 6 months and fined $2,000 for the cheating of bus or mrt fares. There was an outcry of the members of parliament who felt that the gahmen was coming down too hard on offenders. But what could you expect with Singapore being… well… Singapore. In addition, many readers were complaining that people might not pay fares due to a variety of reasons. One of them being a student who is rushing out of a station might forget to tap his card or tap too fast for the reader to read his card. Would he then he jailed? Another one was old people might tap their cards 1 stop too early as they are old…?

Me, forgot to tap my card yesterday at the mrt station I was alighting at. Well I did, but I think it did not read cause I remember the door closing on me. But it opened soon enough, I assumed it opened when the guy behind me tapped his card (fucker).

Anyways, on the way to school today, I fucking could not open the gate. I tapped my card and was greeted by a red flasher. What the fuck I told myself, some worker there then told me to try another gantry and lo and behold, the red flasher struck, AGAIN. In despair and in a desperate rush for time, I went to the dreaded, CONTROL station. The guy checked out me card and smile. He said, you didn’t tap your card when you came out of the station yesterday. He went on to say that I must remember, or else next time they will have to arrest me.

I swear, he said it in all earnestness. %*^%*&%#$^$%&#

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The day someone goes to jail for not tapping his mrt card when exiting the station he alighted at will be the day I migrate. This I swear upon my university education.

Oh, btw, smoking is now banned at bus stops, hawker centres etc etc. *cheers round the house*.