Couple's loud quarrel at HDB block: She throws his pillow and bolster down, tells him to 'get lost from my sight'
Couple's loud quarrel at HDB block: She throws his pillow and bolster down, tells him to 'get lost from my sight'
A couple's quarrel could be heard throughout a Housing Board estate at night.
Stompers Wei Chen and Kyzo alerted Stomp to a video of the incident posted online on May 18.
The video shows the man standing at the foot of an HDB block arguing with a woman on a stairwell landing of the block.
Kyzo said: "There was lots of shouting and things escalated to the point where the wife kicked the husband out of the house with just a pillow and bolster for the night."
It appeared that the woman was angry with her partner, who was called "baby" by his female colleague.
She screamed from above: "Office people call each other baby? What's that?"
The man asked her to lower her volume, which made her angrier.
"Shhh what? You scared people hear? I want to let everyone hear," she yelled. "You betray me."
Defending himself, the man said: "She calls everyone in the office baby."
But the woman did not believe it and replied: "She calls everyone baby? You sure?"
He pleaded for her to stop.
She continued: "You don't tell me what to do. I tell you what to do," she shouted, before throwing a bolster and pillow to the ground floor.
"Go, go get lost from my sight. I don't want to see you tonight."
The man remarked, "Siao char bor," eliciting more screaming from the woman.
He picked up the pillow and bolster, and placed them in the back of a GetGo car parked nearby as the video ends.
One Instagram user commented: "Perfect GetGo ad, to be honest."
But another sympathised with the woman: "It looks and sounds funny… Until it happens to you… Betrayal is such a painful thing."
Just a few days earlier, another couple got into an argument at 3am in Sengkang.
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