Bengbeng fooled by Sibu lady with sob story
Tonight I was invited out by a dear friend and gym buddy out for supper. I assumed it was to hand me a wedding invitation and I was not mistaken. Hey you! Congrats to u and yr future wife, and I will come to witness yr big day. I won’t miss it for the world. We arranged to meet at a popular eating outlet.
This is the outlet. No false pretensions or anything. A place to eat, fill your stomach and leave type of place.
We were not hungry so we had tidbits and finger-food only. Kongpia is the dish in the red plate. It is supposed to be a staple food for Sibu people. It is dough stuffed with meat. 40 sen a piece.
Then this lady came with cempedak for sale. Very tanned, shrunken type of person and simply dressed. She told us a sob story of children sick and needing money to buy milk for the children. Anyway, softie that I was , I bought some cempedak from her. I was also thinking about how unfortunate she was and perhaps channel her needs to some people I know whom I am sure are more than willing to help.
Anyway, after I had paid her, nearby patrons told me I had been conned. She according to them is filthy rich. She has been changing her story every few months. None of her stories are true but she manages to find ’suckers’ like me every day.
I will not be conned by her another time. I have helped people before and I will continue to do but I will remember this lady and I will never be conned again by her.
It could have been a simple transaction. She sells the fruit and I buy. But I feel cheated when I think I have been taken for a ride and I was even willing to take the trouble to refer her case to others I felt in a position to help.
I think Bengbeng has become a little more cynical today.
P.S. I just remembered. She also said the husband was sick and had run away too. She didn’t bat an eye lid when she told her story!
What in the world are we coming to? The rich begging for moolah…
He looks familiar.
Ohh, that old lady ar… Hahaha!!! Well known in Sibu already lor, a lot of people fell into her trap. My mum used to buy rotten bananas from her. Few nice bananas on top then she put a lot of rotten bananas at the bottom of the plastic bag. That was a long time ago.
Always the same old story lor. No money buy milk for kids lah. No money buy books for kids lah. No money buy uniform for kids lah. The children sick, no money buy medicine lah. Her son/daughter accident and broke his/her leg lah. Her who and who got robbed lah. Always these stories lor.
Be careful of this kind of people, Bengbeng. This lady goes all over the place wan. She even tried to open my car door when I came out of the photocopy shop, luckily I locked the door. I honked the car loudly and drove away. She even went into the Sacred Heart Cathedral, taking advantage of the church-goers by cheating them into buying her rotten fruits.
I don’t know if we can do anything to stop her.
Mr. BB,
It’s ok. As long as you had good intentions. She will reap the repercussions later on. But, now that you’ve blogged abt it…Sibu ppl..BEWARE of famous FRUITY lady!!
I think every body except me knows
My policy is always try not to judge, so very often I am the last to know stuff
How’s the cempedak? Is it rotten? If rotten then you are really conned by her
If not, then consider that you are lucky that you are getting a good fruit instead of rotten bananas like clare said. Hahaha…
Your story is not too bad. The indian man selling fresh cow milk told my neighbour I ordered 4 pkt of milk from him. Hence I’m away at work, he tumpang the milk at my neighbour house and my neighbour actually paid him on behalf of me. Terror huh. on top of that my neighbour somemore buy 2 pkt of milk for her own consumption. Of course I pay my neighbour the money and took the milk. Another thing lagi terror. The milk is so dialute I think that Indian man add water to it. 666
dun worry.. at least me dunno about her :p
if she is a seller, why does she need to tell u a story to make u buy? U pay extra?
Cely, thanks. I think she does it to make people buy from her, if she does not people will just say not interested
Irene : it looked good from the top. I didnt overturn it until I was about to turn the fruit over.
Hijack queen : Oh dear, u did right by paying the neighbour but the milk seller is too much.