Friday, April 01, 2005
A strange happening
I was enjoying a plate of nasi lemak at the Kovan hawker centre when I suddenly realised that I had exceeded my lunch hour limit. So in a hurry, I ran to the main road in an attempt to catch a cab back to the office. It happened to be peak hour so traffic was rather high. Without much thought, I dashed across the busy road. The oncoming cars then started honking at me, but luckily, I managed to reach the other side of the road in one piece.
I was already 20 minutes late and still there were no cabs. Then suddenly, a police car pulled over in front of me. A young policeman came out of the vehicle holding a notebook and a pen. He came up to me, said he saw me jaywalking and wanted to issue me a fine. He scribbled on his notebook and handed it to me. When I saw it, I had a shock of my life. The fine was $8,000. I started crying and begged him to lower the fine, promising never to jaywalk again. The policeman thought about it for a while, and then soften up. He again scribbled something on his notebook. This time round, he handed me the fine and the amount has been reduced to $1,200. He asked if it was ok and I said yes. Then, he walked away.
My alarm clock started ringing and I woke up...glad that it was just a silly dream. Happy April Fool's Day!
Posted by Jo at 6:23 PM
