on my way back from lunch

i was stopped by some lady who was trying to sell spa treatments and slimming centre jazz.

i think she must have spotted me polishing off my "yami yoghurt" and thought that i needed her products.

anyway, here are some quotes from her sales pitch

sales lady: "eh miss ah, i see you don't usually go for facials ah. your skin must be very sensitive. tsk tsk."

i didn't even know there was a correlation between facials and sensitive skin. isn't sensitive skin a condition WHETHER or not you go for facials??

my mind starts screaming "scam. scam. SCAM."

it's also amusing to note that the sales lady's nose is peeling and she's giving me a talk about facial treatments their company offers.

sales lady: "uh miss, you are not plump but i think you could stand to lose more weight. must keep fit hor! so why don't i introduce to you our slimming spa treatments."

slimming spa treatments don't involve exercise. so... i couldn't quite see the connection between that and keeping fit.

i tell her that i don't think i can do the program she's trying to sell anyway. i'm going off to canada (always a useful card to play)

sales lady: that's two months!! you can still do the whole program in two months! just come down regularly.."

i quickly tell her that i'm going to thailand before that. so really i have no time.

sales lady: "oh but you're still working now for at least a while right.. if you come everyday you can still finish quite a bit of the program. and we offer image makeovers..."

really lady, i'm not interested. i don't know why you can't derive that since i kind of said it from the start.

i think avoiding persistent sales aunties must be a skill as well.

on the way back, i saw another lady bump into one of these sales aunties and she quickly shoved her nose deeper into the newspaper she was carrying, shook her head vigorously and quickened her walking pace.

so that's how you do it.