Have you heard the expression or phrase “Don’t Stare At The Monkeys“? Well, it supposedly makes them angry if you stare at them. I don’t know the reason why, but they somehow get very aggressive and may attempt to attack you if you do. I recently found out that this is oh so true.

I was drinking a cup of the finest brew at my neighbourhood coffee shop just a few days ago. This was the only coffee shop in Singapore that has real coffee, not the bitter carbon water we find everywhere, but actual real great tasting coffee. Anyways, there was this weirdly dressed creature with a funny spiky hairstyle drinking coffee. Apparently, monkeys like great tasting coffee too. Hey, who or what doesn’t! He being so different, I decided to take an extra peak at him. You know me being the curious type. And he caught me looking at him! I mean, I didn’t actually stare at him like for hours or anything, just an extra look so that I can describe him in my blog later on. Not that I was deliberately trying to be rude or trying to pick a fight, but it was just like sort of a quick look with no harm intended.

And that was enough to set him off. After he finish drinking his coffee, he came to my table and demanded (by beating his chest with his fists several times) to know the reason why I was staring at him. He “said” that he had “caught” me staring at him since I came to the coffee shop and told me that if I have a problem with him, we should finish this up somewhere else. I being a weasel declined his kind offer. Hey, he had chains around his body! I told him that I wasn’t staring at him as my main interest in life is with pretty (human) ladies that appreciate fine coffee as I do. He barked a few incomprehensible words at me before stalking off into the sunset, his little tail wagging behind him.

But anyway, the moral of this blog post is to tell you that it really makes the monkeys (and Gorillas) mad if you stare at them, even if for a few seconds. My suggestion is to point digital cameras at them and please use flash. It frightens them (sort of).