Cross-Cultural Conversations

Observations by a Malaysian studying in Australia

A Weighty Issue

Recently someone in the States invented a device which you can install in the car that tells you your weight. A middle-aged woman was asked on television what she thought of the device, in which she replied she couldn't think of anything more useless than that.

I had to agree with her. Why would you want something that, in all likelihood will tell you you're overweight everytime you get into the car? We already have well-meaning and brutally honest friends for that.

But then I thought, if I did have the device, I wouldn't have to weigh myself before and after a visit to the toilet which I sometimes do (the weighing scales are conveniently located opposite the toilet bowl). I also no longer have to weigh myself after I wake up and before I go to sleep at night since I've already done so in the car on my way home.

Suddenly this device doesn't sound so useless after all. 

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