A simple question about adding an egg to his nasi lemak allegedly prompted a male customer to make a crude joke, leaving the female worker serving him visibly uncomfortable.
Threads user @mizzjenna shared that she witnessed the exchange while queuing for breakfast at an eatery.
‘No need, I already have my own’
According to her post, the female worker was taking the order of a man who wanted nasi lemak ayam.
When she asked whether he wanted an additional egg, he allegedly replied: “No need, I already have my own.”
The worker said she had not heard him, prompting him to repeat: “I don’t want eggs. I already have my own.”
The remark appeared to play on the Malay word telur, which means eggs but is also slang for testicles.
Standing behind him, the OP said she awkwardly looked at the worker, whose expression had become visibly uncomfortable.
‘She’s there to do her job’
In a follow-up post, the OP criticised the man for making an inappropriate sexual joke at a woman who was simply working.
She questioned why he could not place his order normally, adding that the day had barely begun.
“Not funny at all. She’s there to do her job, not to entertain your dirty jokes,” she wrote.
She also expressed frustration that some men felt comfortable making women uneasy in public.
Netizens suggest making him explain the joke
The post drew responses from netizens who were similarly unimpressed with the alleged exchange.
One commenter shared that her sister’s approach to such remarks was to pretend she did not understand and repeatedly ask the person to explain.
According to the commenter, this would continue until the person became embarrassed about repeating the remark, sometimes with others nearby being drawn into the conversation.
Another suggested addressing customers as “Encik” instead of “abang” to establish a more professional tone, while stressing that the man remained responsible for his behaviour.
Others criticised the tendency to turn ordinary conversations into suggestive jokes.
“His behaviour is awful. Every joke has to have a double meaning,” one commenter wrote.
Another suggested asking the man to repeat his joke until he felt embarrassed by it.
