Please remember that carpark lots do not belong to anyone in particular but are communal spaces used on a first-come-first-served basis, says STOMPer Pissed Off Neighbour, who was shocked to find this note on the windscreen of his visitor's car.
The person who left the note there is a foreign expatriate living next door to the STOMPer.
In an open-letter to the woman who wrote the note, the sender says:
"Dear Mrs Richards,
"We live in a tiny island of five million people. Yes, this tiny little island that you can barely see on a map has a whopping five million people.
"Living with this many people in a tiny space can get to us, but do practice a little tact and social grace.
"If you have something to say (not shout, say), do knock on my door and talk (not shout, talk) to me.
"I only live next door.
"And by the way, parking your car in an open communal space does not make it 1) a parking space and 2) your parking space for that matter.
"You accuse us of breaking 'conventions' and yet you were the first one to do so, by sticking this note on the windscreen of my guest's car.
"I am not sure what is is like where you come from but it is not how we do things in Singapore.
"I see your last decade in our country has taught you nothing. Go home, we don't want you here".
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Even if the carpark is first-come, first-served, the stomper has to realize that people instinctively organize their lives by forming habits.
I mean, if the stomper was to come home tired from work and finds his/her usual parking spot was taken, I don't think he/she will be very happy also.
Living in a community, you have to give and take. It's the same in school, at work, etc. Everyone develops some sort of habit and it's natural to be a bit irked when someone disrupts that. I'm sure the other people in the residence all have their "own" parking space also, not just anyhow-go-find everytime.
The note was probably done in a hurry or maybe she was not sure who parked as you said it was your visitor's car. I actually think, this was a quick, straightforward message.
The stomper should also realize, that by talking about living in a community and sharing communal space, there are certain "unwritten rules" everyone abides by - like allowing others to "own" space and respecting that space.
u don't know how some of them behave in their own country.
right here, we all always kena lecture to open our hearts to accept them where even often qouted country like US have more restriction on the foreigners.
this has directly bolstered some of their arrogance and bad attitudes.