Go Get a Life, Mr. C

When I was last at Sunny Supermarket, I bought a sample pack of Friskies brand by Purina cat food. The idea was to use it as snack food to play with the cats at the school where I work as a dishwasher (dish pig). I started feeding the cat last week. In total, including today (Wednesday 02/05), I have fed that cat thrice. I could only feed the cat a small handful at a time. Sadly though, today was to be my last time.

It is an offence to feed the cats. I didn’t know about the law and was told off like a little 4 year old caught burning down her Kindergarten. Mr. C spoke to me in a very condescending style, like I was having trouble understanding him. I wasn’t struggling to understand his language, but the logic behind his argument. He told me off for feeding the cat outside the ‘food court’ and warned me to not do it again. If I feed the cat again the entire food court would be shut down by the health department.   Well Mr. C, I have a couple of issues with the way you addressed me.

First off Mr. C, there is no need to speak to me in such a tone. Was it because I am a lowly dish pig that you thought it was alright to speak to me in such a tone? Second point Mr. C, there is no need to go to that extreme with me. I would have stopped if you have spoken to me politely. I am not there to challenge you. Frankly speaking, I can’t be bothered challenging this school and its extreme ways of handling things. Yeah I know that quote, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” I am just going to play my role as a lowly dish pig whose ideas and comments will never be respected by the likes of you.

I assume Mr. C’s idea of getting rid of the cats is through starvation. Where is his compassion and respect for God’s creatures? Oh, Mr. C might not be a Christian because he doesn’t have a Christian name. Ok, he could be a Buddhist. Well, when I went to listen to the Dalai Lama in 1995, he was really into compassion. So, where is it, Mr. C? Does he think by starving the kittens, the adult cats would practice safe sex in the future to keep their population under control? If the school seriously wishes to get rid of the cats, they could have contacted the authorities to come and collect them. Gassing the cats is a more humane way of disposing them than to starve them.

Deng Xiao Ping once said, “不管白猫、黑猫，逮住老鼠就是好猫。” Is it a surprise or what that someone lowly like me knows a little Chinese history? Does anyone remember the campaign to kill sparrows during the Mao era? What happened was that the locust population went out of control without the sparrows there to control them.  The same thing applies to the cats and the rat population.  Shouldn’t the school be thankful that the cats are doing such a splendid job keeping the rat population under control? Wouldn’t that be yet another successful story about the school?

The school is probably worried also about litigation issues in case one of the precious students gets Toxoplasmosis. Now, that would be scary. Children from around the time they are toddlers could be taught to wash their hands. Surely teenagers who are destined to attend ivy league/ top class universities the world over could handle that task independently if they have access to liquid hand wash rather than empty hand wash dispensers. May be responsible hand washing is yet another obsolete skill like taking turns and queuing. Knowing how to wash one’s hands doesn’t help one achieve another ‘A’.

I have had enough of ranting. I will go take a rest now