'Patient' uncle

I just finished lunch with Maureen, and on the way back, I went to fill up our 3 bottles with the reverse osmosis (RO) water at the vending machine in front of Hup Heng.

It's cheaper than the others right now, with 10cents for 1.5 liters of water.

When I reached there, a Malay, mustached uncle was filling up water with around 8 bottles of 1.5-liter bottles.

He told me, "I still have a lot of bottles, you better use the other machines" in a slightly unpleasant manner.

"OK, I only have 3 bottles..." I said, wanting to continue with "can you let me use it first?", but he was not listening and went towards his car to fetch another 4 bottles.

All right, I am patient, I can wait for him to fill up his 30-40 bottles, since he didn't had the courtesy to let me fill up my bottles in less than 3 minutes.

So, he went to and fro from his car to the water vending machine, carrying 4 bottles each time, with each trip taking around 30 secs.

It took him around 15-20 minutes to finished filling all the bottles. (I didn't bother to calculate, since he arrived there, he did had the priority to use the machine)

Now, once he has filled up the last bottles, he went back to his car to put his bottles, with another 3 filled-up bottles left on the machine.

Since he was walking to his car, I went up and filled up my 2-liter bottle, expecting it to finish just about the time the uncle came back.

He came back for the bottles, and I was still maintaining my good mood even though I was slightly irritated by the lack of courtesy of the uncle at that time (imagine waiting for 20 mins for a 3-mins task).

However, the words that came out of the uncle were really out of my expectations.

"Be patient lah. Wait and be patient."

WTH?

I was already being patient for him to walk to his car and fill up his bottles for 20 mins, and now that he's not using the machine, I can't even fill up until he has finished taking the last 3 bottles?

Come on, he is the one with no patience to wait for me to fill up just half a bottle of water!

If he had patience, he would have let me fill up my 3 bottles in 3 mins, but instead made me wait for 20 mins!

And he even had the nerve to come out with words like this.

Pure classic.