I am so NOT kidding. I met this lunatic tonight, while having a solitary dinner at MOS Burger at Toa Payoh. I was waiting for my order to be served to me and reading a book, nicely minding my own little business. I was even considerate to sit at those two-person tables lining one side of the wall as it was crowded…
All of a sudden, this young man, roughly in his mid-late twenties, quite plump and obviously a loon, appeared next to me. He grabbed my wrist, his grip was so strong that I was unable to pull away no matter how hard I tried. While holding on to his deathly grip on me, he pried my fingers open to stuff a crumpled piece of paper. I totally didn’t see what it was at all. The second the paper reached my hands, he let go of my wrist. Without a single moment’s hesistation, I dumped the crumpled piece of paper on the tray.
And if you think that this dude will just leave me alone, you’re oh so WRONG! He knelt down right next to me! HE FUCKING KNELT DOWN! He started mumbling and gesturing for me to give him $2 for him to eat something and all that shizz, but really, all I could do was stare at him in obvious horror and stick myself to the wall.
An eternity later, my saviour descended in the form of a MOS Burger employee, who gently took the loon away. The mad dude even had the sense to remove the crumpled piece of paper that I dumped on the tray!
You know what’s the best thing of all? NOBODY came to help. NOT A SINGLE SOUL even opened his/her mouth! It wasn’t as if the MOS Burger was empty or anything. NO! It was crowded! So crowded that I had to sit at a small table with my bag on my lap. Two girls sitting two tables in front of me kept turning their heads and LOOKING! Even after the loon was escorted out! I was so close to asking them what’s so interesting to look at, if you can’t even open your golden mouth to HELP. Does he look like my friend? Do I look like I was enjoying the attention? I’m almost 100% positive that I look horrified, lost, and terribly shocked.
My heart literally STOPPED at that instant, and remained that way for however long he knelt there. And till NOW, an hour later, my heart is still thumping madly. I’m that frightened. Honestly, looking back, I don’t think I’d be in such a state of utter shock if he had come to me from the front and I wasn’t engrossed in a spy thriller novel, by the author of the Jason Bourne series no less.
Now I have this scratch on the back of my hand. I wonder if it’s left by that loon. I better apply some antiseptic.
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