Speak to My Finger

I never expected myself to be caught in those situations which my colleagues have been telling me. This afternoon, I was approached by a young Malay guy not in some tattering clothes but quite neat (a little ruffled and dirt) clothes, though there's a tinge of sadness on his look. I came out from the LRT station and just finished climbing a flight of steps. I usually walk straight on my left after the staircase but I don't know why my instinct took me a right turn to another short flight of stairs. Most probably because the tail of my eye, I saw this young guy approaching someone else and got ignored. And then I appeared - a new target I guess. So I just walked past him very quickly and he came after me! I think I heard him saying something like "RM 1" or something like that but I just ignored and RAN. But he followed me walking down the stairs! And even rested his hand on my shoulder! I think he wanted to be right in front of me, but instinct just kicked in: I stopped at the same level of stairs and looked, burningly, into his eyes, as I said LEAVE ME ALONE. And the best thing was ... don't know why this gesture felt out naturally: my fingers curled into a ball and it was perfectly angled at his direction. I was ready for a dip into his face. I think my Karate sensei would be proud to see a student of his could still curl the fist correctly with a perfect balance on the shoulder.

The guy was taken aback to see my right hanging fist and glaring stare. His hand just shrunk and tore away his eyes from mine and looked somewhere. When Isaw this gesture, I quickly ran away, and he said "I LOVE YOU". What is wrong with this guy? I seriously don't know. If he had said "Please help me", people would have lend him a sympathetic ear, but instead he said "Give me RM 1."

This young guy was still hanging around at the mouth of the LRT station. I actually thought of using the earlier route, but spotting him made me took the more dangerous way to go back to the LRT station on the opposite direction: cross the helluva road. I actually really really thought of going back there, just to test my luck ... but what if my stupidity won this bet? What if this guy this time took up the courage and whack the heck out of me? Whoops. Glad renaye was not that stupid to take that chance.

I should have just brought my umbrella with me. It will not only protect me from this guy but also the crazy weather of today.

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