More subtle / not subtle intimidation at the internet place this morning. As I stand browsing the web, a man walks up next to me prominently brandishing a 500000 VND note, which is the biggest note. He spits about a meter away from my feet. Ostensibly he's buying a drink at the cafe, but he's not. He literally could have spat anywhere, its not busy at all at this time in the morning.
Btw, there was a weird incident that reaked of planned and manufactured yesterday in a shop involving the person just ahead of me paying with a 500000 VND note. While people do obviously occasionally pay with the biggest note, it doesn't happen all that often. Two days in a row like this is unusual at the best of times, but with all the extra stuff it's almost definitely some sort of planned thing.
Btw 2, the 1/2 eaten box of chocolates, the chocolates are quite fancy, the chocolate is high quality, I guess probably quite expensive, however the centre of the chocolates is jelly sweets, kind of cheap and nasty. Anyhow it's another example of the halves pattern, but also the expensive pattern also manifested in the 500000 VND notes.
While this is happening, 2-3 blokes are having a somewhat lively discussion, but it's aggressive in nature, they keep inserting english words designed to anger goad. I say quite loudly 'Spitting at my feet while holding a 500 note, what are you doing mate, you could have spat literally anywhere'. Lots of laughter from the small gang of blokes.
They continue their anger goading, finishing with a 'you learn'.
I wait a few moments and calmly answer the thing they were really saying:
'No, fuck you'.
Within a few minutes they have all disapeared.
And they claim to not be on a warpath. Warpathing is all they do. Literally every damn thing they do is a warpath, but they dress it up as funny, or help, or whatever. And when you calmly point it out to them, and everyone else, they get upset. #