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Musings: Ask and you shall receive

In less than an hour: Situation 1: I was buying some things and the cashier accidentally punched in the wrong key in the computer and couldn't figure out how to undo it.  In less than a minute, she asked her workmate, and after they tinkered with the PC a bit, they messaged their friend (and apologised to me the whole time). They then restarted the PC and scanned my items again, but the system still went bonkers. Their friend finally replied to their txt with how to fix the situation, but it seems a bit technical (it involves clicking some buttons in the software plus pressing some keys, but their keyboard is quite worn out so they couldn't see all the keys properly).  Finally, they turned to me and asked me if I could help ("Akak, tolong kami boleh? Kami tak reti" while showing me the txt messages). Thankfully, I knew where the keys are on the keyboard so we managed to solve the problem together. Situation 2: Two grown-up men (early 30s maybe?) standing next to me ke