Dear Diary,
If I have an alter ego in the comic universe, my nemesis would be the GPS.
With the hundreds of 'redirecting' that I had caused I would not be surprised if the GPS came alive and smack me on the head.
But GPS also has its shortfalls by all the near accidents it caused, seriously shouldn't a GPS tells you beforehand to turn right and not immediately after ordering you to go to the far left side of a three lane road! , causing
A) for you to miss your turning and
B) nearly colliding with a car when you are too absorb in listening to the directions!
And what is it with satellite undetected?!
Anyhow back to my story. I have a tendency to get lost ,getting on the wrong bus is not uncommon to me but it sure gives an awesome story to tell. Little did I know that my family and I have a lot in common.
Normally on my day off , I would go to Seremban, Lake Garden to jog. Occasionally, my parents and little brother would follow and after an hour and a half of sweating and puffing (lack of oxygen, lack of oxygen)we would go to search for breakfast.
One fine morning , after going our rounds, my parents and I decided to eat breakfast at an Indian Restaurant (which makes the nicest Rawa Tosei :).
There were not many people at the restaurant on a Sunday morning. We ordered our food and ate.
After breakfast, we went to the car.
I could hear dad pressing the car key to unlock the car,
CLICK CLOCK!
I pulled the door handle........It wouldn't open ! Puzzled I pulled again , still it would not open! I looked at my mom and dad and noticed that they were facing the same problem......Mom was still trying to open the door while Dad was franticaly pushing the button on the car keys ....CLICK CLOCK CLICK CLOCK.
Why wouldn't the doors open.
The three of us backed away from the car. It was correct, metalic silver.
I was still scratching my head when my dad gave a loud guffaw laugh and pointed.
THERE, beside the car that we were trying to get in was our metallic silver Proton Perdana waiting patiently for us .
The one that we were trying to open was a metallic silver Honda!
If the Perdana had feelings it would have said OUCH! All of us were laughing so hard we could hardly stand. I mean if it was only me , understandable ........but this was all THREE of us, the two voice of reasons trying to pry open a strange car. We thank our lucky stars that :
1. That Honda's alarm system wasn't working. It will be pretty awkward explaining to the owner what we were doing.
2. There's no CCTV there, imagine what the police would think if they saw a family trying to break into a car!
We were still laughing all the way back home.
Hey , it was a harmless mistake, I'm happy that I finally know where my absent mindedness comes from but seriously, if you notice the picture above , come on they do look similar from the side.
Right ?
That was not the end of the story. I had another mistaken car incident which happen a few years back, when I just started working.
It was late night, around 11 pm and we forgot to buy bread for breakfast. Dad and I went to the 7 Eleven near our house. At that time we had a green proton wira. We were the only car at the parking lot. Dad waited in the car while I went inside to buy the bread.
I seriously do not remember what I was thinking about , but I'm sure my mind was somewhere else.OBVIOUSLY.
Anyway, I bought the bread and went out of the store. I did not look left and right.
My dad's car was there just in front of me. The parking lot was dark, the only light was coming from the row of shophouses itself.
I opened the door to the passenger seat.... Got in.
Closed the door ...
I just looked out the window, not looking at my dad..
One minute...
Two minute....
I was curious, why were we not moving?
'Abah, why aren't we .........Yikes!!!'
There...... At the driver's seat, was a lady. She was looking at me in horror ( If you watch horror movies such as Halloween , when the killer was going to strike and they zoom to the victims face frozen in terror, yup it was exactly like that!) Her handphone was at her ear,her eyes were big and her mouth was wide open, but no sound came out.
One minute.....Both of us were staring at each other.
I collected my composure.
" SORRY,SORRY, SOOOO SORRY" I quickly jumped out of the car and rushed to my dad's car ,which,was beside the lady's car.
Trembling I got into the car.
'Why so late? 'Asked dad, oblivious to the whole incident.
I didn't DARE to say anything.
Boy , I must have given that lady a scare.
Moral of the story people , always lock your doors...
You never know who might jump in ! Whether innocently or not!
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