What can $5 buy you, almost a whole chicken, just add $0.60 and you will get one. Maybe that is why the Chinese woman at the market refused to return to my mother the $5 note she dropped. As the woman was about to pick it, my mum told her that it belonged to her as she had just dropped it. The woman ignored her and walked away.
My mum, annoyed followed her to the next shop and said, "You took my money, you eat the money, you will get bad luck." Still the errant lady staged a "wall face", muka tembok as we say it in Malay.
It just goes to show that different people have different values and even my values from my mum differ. I would think maybe she needed the money more than me and wished her well. Maybe it had been a long time since she could afford a chicken.
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