Brother Special in the rain

Sejak minggu lepas, asik hujan memanjang. Nasib baik tak simpan jacket kalis air tu lagi. Pergi balik kelas dalam hujan lah nasibnya. Seperti biasa semalam, lepas kelas terakhir tu terus ke bilik, pack laptop dan sebagainya dan terus mulakan perjalanan ke bus station.

Buruk betul mood masa tengah berjalan tu. Iya la, dahla jauh, beg agak berat, hujan pulak beriya-iya. Basah kuyup jugak seluar jeans bila dah sampai tu. FYI I get cranky when I am cold, hungry and tired. Masa tu memikir, ish tak sabar nak sampai rumah, nak kena keringkan buku lagi, nak kena mandi etc. Bila dah static tunggu bas tu pulak dalam keadaan basah kuyup tu, kena pulak angin sepoi-sepoi bahasa jerman, memang la sejuk sampai ke tulang kering. Dalam hati merungut tak berhenti, kalaula aku ada kereta, kalaula rumah aku dekat, kalaula aku banyak wang ringgit...haha.

Bas pun datang, I pun naik. Settle satu bab. Bas tu pun teruskan perjalanan and at the next stop bas tu pun berhenti nak ambik orang. Masa tu saya ushar-ushar la sapa yang naik bas tu, sebab semenjak dok naik bas ni, perasan mostly orang yang sama saja yang naik. Pastu nampak sorang guy who looks familiar. Ushar-ushar memang betul la dia.

Let me tell you about this brother. Dia ni special sikit, both his legs does not function. So he gets around with his crutches and his legs will be hanging. It's a small town, so you tend to see the same people often and I've seen him often, I guess he takes the bus to work everyday. Sebab dah selalu jumpa, dia akan greet me 'Hallo' everytime he sees me and vice versa lah. Merata brother ni berjalan, he'll have a backpack and he 'walks' faster than some of middle-aged men I know.

Back to the story, I was looking at him waiting ngan sorang makcik ni at the bus stop. Makcik tu nice enough to hold the umbrella over his head tu. Brother ni berbungkus you, hood of his raincoat covered everything but his face and he wore a plastic 'sarong' to avoid his pants getting wet from the rain. Both his hands still holding his crutches. Hujan turun tak berenti.

Masa tu rasa nak nangis pun ada. I was so ashamed of myself. Punyalah complaint itu ini, sedangkan I have both my legs, sihat waalfiat pulak tu and the rain was just temporary. I start to think about so many things I take for granted. Kalau kena nasib macam brother tu baru padan muka I kannn...

The good thing about duduk area small town ni is when you have a routine life, you will know the everyone, for instance the bus driver or the train driver 'personally'. I mean, you will see the same old people lah, so you tend to know what they do and where they are going. Kalau tahap I ni takat kenal muka lah and like the brother, say Hallo Goodbye camtu ja lah. So the bus driver tu memang dah biasa dengan brother ni, so bila brother ni nak turun bas, the driver drove the bus as near as possible to the his home, although he's actually not allowed to stop anywhere else but at bus stops. Haha..but from the look of it, kat kampung tu lagi banyak lembu dari kereta, so what the heck la kan?

Bila brother ni turun bas, dia pun kata kat driver tu "Danke Schön, Gute Fahrt!", meaning Thank you, have a good trip!.

Driver ni jawab " Danke schön!", meaning Thank you.

Brother ni pulak, dalam dok tot tet turun bas, dia kata " Ich soll IHNEN bedanken! Tchuss!!", meaning I'm the one who should be thanking you! Goodbye!.

Driver tu pun gelak "Tchüss!"..Goodbye!

Kekadang I ni kalau turun bus, lompat keluar saja. Tak kata apa pun, especially masa tgh letih or malas nak layan. Adeh, terasa lagi dengan brother tu. Betul tau orang kata, 

a little kindness goes a looooooonggg way!

So masa I sampai at my stop, I skipped out of the bus and said to the driver 

" Danke Schön! Tchüss!!"