I saw this status update on my friend's Facebook:
"Circle Line sighting: a middle-aged auntie spent almost a minute wiping a just-vacated seat with a tissue before sitting down… #commute"
That made me wonder: "Do aunties still whack bus or MRT seats? Or are the new seats too hard to perform this ritual?"
Hey, it's Monday and everyone needs a distraction from work. So I decided to ask my Twitter followers what they thought were the reasons aunties beat bus seats with the hashtag #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats:
- @mrbrown: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats To make the bus seat cooler.
- @humswhilepeeing: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats Because they've been naughty, oh so naughty.
- @mrbrown: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats Don't want to be intimate with previous passenger's body heat.
- @mrbrown: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats To whack the germs away.
- @ShunfuMart: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats Trying to locate the 20 cent coin that dropped out from her ear.
- @JustStephy: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats Because it makes the aunties feel shiok.
- @mrbrown: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats Angry at have to give maid weekly day off or pay extra.
- @kennethkongk: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats To make sure got no staple bullets.
- @mrbrown: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats Don't want to accidentally become pregnant with a stranger's baby.
- @mrbrown: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats Standing operating procedure (SOP) for improvised explosive device (IED) defeat operations.
- @sleetm: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats To make sure the cable ties are strong enough.
- @JuliaBensily: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats Don't wanna contract Piles.
- @ShunfuMart: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats They dont know either. Its just a natural instinct that kicks in at the menopause.
- @briancwq: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats Territorial Marking. It scares the other seat hunters away
- @mrbrown: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats Foreplay.
- @mrbrown: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats Secret Auntie Gang Handshake.
- @luqmanhakim: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats To give a spiritual high-five to other aunties that have done the same to that seat.
- @hiidvr: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats To make up for their lack of talent with more complicated instruments.
- @tingzii: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats To inform the ghost occupiers that they're gonna sit on their legs.
- @Fake_PMLee: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats Closest they get to feel someone's bum in a long time.
- @mrbrown: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats Because she's got that super bass / Boom, badoom, boom / Boom, badoom, boom bass / Yeah that's that super bass.
- @mrbrown: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats They want to be the next Jeremy Lin. #Linsanity
- @mrbrown: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats To commemorate the day Fernando Torres finally scored after a 26-match drought.
- @FerryBreezy: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats to attract the attention of other aunties to sit beside them. And talk about the meaning of life. And stuff.
- @chingchingching: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats So moles won't grow on their butt (that's what my mum told me).
- @mrbrown: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats To express frustration at the Euro Debt crisis and the dilemma between austerity and stimulus.
- @mrbrown: #reasonsauntiesbeatbusseats That's a Foursquare Check-in, Auntie style.
