OMG... I had a near-death (sorta) experience today... And it has gotta do with terrorism !!! Meeps !!!
Took a bus to work today and do you guys remember where the old ticket machine used to be ? Where we gotta use the filmsy bendy metallic ticket and slot it into this machine that looks like a jackpot machine and press for whichever price it is that you want.
So since we have ez-link, they took out the machine and it just leave a space there. And there there are 2 seats by the side of the machine which is facing the opposite and not the front of the bus.
Therefore, I took the seat which is just beside the space.
Sooooo.... nothing happens.... I was staring into space cause I ran out of books to read and listening to iPod while just staring into space...
Then suddenly ! A bangladesh board the bus, wearing a checkered shirt... and he dumped a huge and puffy haversack on the empty space where the old ticket machine used to be and LEFT !!!!
He just dumped the haversack there and WALKED OFF to the exit of the bus !!!!!
A few people just glanced through it without any red light going off in their head ! They acted as if its perfectly NORMAL for a guy to just board a bus, dumped a huge and puffy looking haversack on an empty space and then proceed towards the exit !!!!
I just stared at the haversack while my brain was thinking:
a)Run off the bus now while staring at everybody with large terrified eyes
b)Run to the bus driver and announce in a rather loud and terrified voice that some Bangladesh just left the haversack there and ran off
c)Be calm and collected and get off the bus PRONTO
While I was deciding what to do and be absolutely terrified that the bag might just blow up any second, this little girl of Poly age board the bus. She looked at the haversack and she thought was mine till she saw my own haversack on my lap and flashed me a look... I just flashed back my look...
So everything was still calm while I was still thinking (I know, its too long, the thinking part, but I was seriously thinking !)... Then the Poly girl flashed me another look.. And then I just told her, "This guy left it ! That guy at the back, he came up, just dumped it here and walked to the exit ! What if its a bomb ?!?!" while pointing to the Bangladesh at the exit.
Then she picked up the courage (Bless her !) and told the bus driver. While I was at a near panic stage now and grabbing my belongings and going to jump through the glass if need be when she came back and told me, "The uncle said the Bangladesh is always like that"
My heart stopped a teeny weeny bit and I was like, "oh okay".
The moment I saw the haversack which brought me back to Earth from my spacing out, I sms-ed Mas and Tiff. Tiff was still sleeping I presumed cause she was on her annual leave so I wasn't really expecting a quick reply from her. Whereas Mas just said I was being totally drama RIGHT till the VERY END after the whole bomb episode !
Grrr... I wasn't being drama ! It was totally scary !!! Like seriously !!! Everybody agreed with me !!! My mom, my colleagues and Tiff (Eventually, after she woke up)... It was such a close call. Phew !
I could have died up there ! And gotten blown into bits with nothing left cause the puffy haversack was just right beside moi... It looks as if it was being stuffed with like 20 TNTs (those in Roadrunners cartoon) or something.
What a close call... What a close call...
I'm so glad to still be alive ! :D