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23 June 2010

Singaporean Non Sequitur Number 2

In a progress meeting today for my current project. There were 11 people in the room and it was my turn to talk. (It's usually my turn to talk when I'm standing up at the front of the room with a whiteboard marker in my hand):

Me: "This pricing shouldn't be taking so long to finalise. The issue here is that there are too many chiefs."

The cliché explains itself and the sentence doesn't need to be finished.

Then I noticed 10 faces politely staring back at me.

Then I realised.

Apart from me, everyone else in the room was Indian.

I started to worry that they would think I stopped the sentence out of some sort of last-minute racial awareness panic.

At that point one of the group (who I am good friends with) looked up and smiled as he said:

"What a relief, Anthony. Usually people say that there are too many Indians!"