Last Sunday OF and I made a trip to the Buddha Tooth Relic Museum after bumming away at the Central Library.
Due to my foresight and astute planning, the car has no coupons. As we have faith that parking attendents (feng fei fei) would show some mercy in parking slots near a temple, we decided to risk it and get on with our trip.
After the museum trip which I got blessed by a monk and subsequently developed a headache (this is another story), we popped by the nearby Smith St hawker to proceed to stuff our face. We ate bak chor mee and then went for claypot rice - all recommended by the wonderful internet. The claypot rice had an hour long wait so I suggested we get our parking coupon since we really shouldn't tempt fate too much, especially when stuffing your face with meat.
So, off we went to find a 7 eleven or a shop that sells coupons. I randomly approached some auntie in a store selling stationery and asked for parking coupons. She told us to go to "yao yao liu san" at the hawker center. After much searching (the store numbers do not go in sequence) and quiet resignation that the store is probably closed, another auntie pointed us the way to "yao yao liu san" and it was a garment store with an auntie selling cloth / altering clothes. My face is like -___- (see image).
At least the store is opened at 7pm. Since we have reached this metaphoric mountain peak, I thought to just ask this random clothing store about parking coupons and, lo and behold, she said "you ah" (yes, I have coupons) whipped out a red plastic bag with coupons. My brain just went "whuuttttttt".
So the moral of the story is to listen to aunties and be amazed at the networks of communities in Singapore. And buy parking coupons from 1163 underneath Smith St food center - just do it for the experience if not for anything else.
And no, we didn't get a parking fine! Hurray to risk taking.
