Vietnamese spend hours on nonsense, but not 20 seconds at red light
TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 03/25/2017 12:55 GMT + 7
The curious mob is seen in front of the Hien Linh Parish in Ho Chi Minh City on March 23, 2017
Vietnamese people seem willing to spend hours on watching anything unusually happening on the street, but refuse to wait for only 20 seconds at the red light, a reader said in a piece sent to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.
Nghi Son wrote to Tuoi Tre after witnessing a tragicomedy in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday, which is a strong argument to back his statement on the weird time management of some Vietnamese.
Waiting hours for a nonsense thing
On Thursday afternoon, I got stuck in the traffic when a mob of hundreds blocked a long section of Ngo Tat To Street in Binh Thanh District, waiting to see police work on a dubious sack that smelled of dead flesh.
I was about 700 meters away from Phu An Bridge when I could not move any further, as the street was filled with long lines of people. Hundreds of motorbikes and cars tried to inch forward, not knowing what had caused such a heavy jam.
It took me nearly 30 minutes to get through the chaotic traffic to reach Phu An Bridge.
There, I saw a number of people, standing wherever they could, all eyes on the entrance of the nearby Hien Linh Parish, where a big crowd of mobs and some police officers were gathering
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