A Story About VAN

We had a short trip to USM Nibong Tebal yesterday. The reason was to bring back our baby crib from a friend's house there. In order to carry the baby crib, our little Iswara definitely cannot do a good job:) The only option was to borrow the van from the church.

That was my frist trip in a VAN.

When we were on our way back with our crib perfectly fitted at the back of the van, something unexpected happened at the bridge tol when we attepted to pass through the Touch-N-Go lane. From far, we saw a malay girl (tol worker), quickly came out from the counter to stop us at the lane. She waved at us and pointed her finger to other lane, she was asking us to move to the lane on the left. The first thing that came into our mind was "What a bad luck! This Touch-N-Go lane is out of order!". With a CRV followed behind our car, hf tried very hard to reverse the van out of the lane and planned to go in the next cash lane on the left. Guess what? I don't understand what is in the mind of the Malaysian drivers. The cars kept coming into the cash lane, none of them gave way to our van. What an selfish act! They acted as though they cannot see such a BIG VAN!!!

Finally, we managed to make into the cash lane. Who knows, the same malay girl stood right in front of us, giving us the same hand signal again. This time I really lost my temper, what's this man!

We reversed again. JL thought, maybe van has different rate. This time, We followed after a bus, a bus lane couldn't be wrong. The TRUTH was finally revealed --> Yeah, JL was right .... coz the meter showed RM9.60!

Now we understand, even though MPV and Van have the same capacity - 7 seaters, but Van != MPV, VAN is VAN, perhaps from the outlook sake or price sake:) I guess that's the reason why the eyes of the malay girl were so sharp. A van needs to move through all the lanes horizontally, endanger itself just to pay 4 more dollars for the TOL:)