musical chairs

it is a strange phenomenon at Bedok library. at 1015am ( just 15 mins after the lib opened), all the seats around this long table are already taken up by old uncles ( strangely, theres no old aunties), with more hovering around the table waiting impatiently for their turns. This table, which can take about 12 people, is specially catered to newspaper readers. Here, newspapers- ST, LianHezaobao,shinmin, etc- are CHAINED to their respective spots on the table. And you see, they even split the newspaper up, meaning this spot is for people who wants to read ST life, another spot is for people who wants to read ST home section. SOOO, if you want to read the whole ST, you have to do seat hopping.

I mean, seriously, its like musical chairs here, except for the missing music,er, and the much older participants. Once the music stops ( thats when someone leaves his seat), the rest who are hovering around chiong towards that one seat in lightning speed. I could literally hear the music, i swear.

so i witnessed this scene just now. And i felt sad for this old uncle who wasnt fast enough and had to retreat to his hovering position.. I almost had the urge to go down and buy him the lian he zao bao.

why why why must the library chained the newspaper to the table???? why let these old people chiong like that?! isnt it obvious that demand is exceeding supply and they should get more copies, instead of splitting one copy into different parts...

and the music stopped thrice while i was writing this short post. ...... ......