what has happened to todays’ society??!!!
i was nearly reaching home when i saw the fallen motorcyclist. I never liked motorcyclist who sped on the roads like they owned it, and yes i do curse at those who almost got me into accidents. anyway getting back to the story. i was driving down the main road heading towards my house, when i saw a person in red sprawled on the street. his motorcycle looked battered from the fall. i recognised the red shirt he was wearing in an instant, he was a McDelivery rider. he got up, and looked shocked from the fall, limping whilst picking up his belongings on the street.
so many cars were turning out of the intersection. there was a dark coloured cefiro, and a champagne coloured lexus. each of them turned out, STOPPED and STARRED for a moment and proceeded to drive off. I pushed on the throttle a little harder and made a U-ey. Parked my car and got down. Thankfully, another malay chap in a satria pulled up just as i was parking my car, and helped him out. The kind hearted malay chap then picked up the motorcycle and pushed it to the side of the road.
ada lock tak? nak kunci motor ko.. karang kena curi he asked the McDelivery dude.
takpe takpe.. biar aja.. was the reply
The dude really looked shaken, and i don’t blame him. i’ve been in accidents before, he was groaning and limping. i scanned his body and saw that he wasn’t seriously injured or anything. thank god he was wearing a helmet.
hang ok tak? i asked
ok ok… he answered while limping.
kind hearted malay chap helped him into the satria…
nak gi mana ni? klinik? i asked the kind hearted malay chap
tak tak.. nak hantar dia pi cari kawan dia.. ko jaga motor dia eh?
i just nodded and off they went.
i sat on my car boot waiting, and my left hand clutched on to a wooden club (well yeah, gotta be ready if anything happens right? i have first hand experience being hounded by hooligan who lobbed helmets at me once). I started to wonder, what happened to people these days? how can you see a sprawled human being on the cold hard surface, in pain? while you sit in your air-conditioned luxury car. and instead of getting down to help the poor soul, you stop, stare a while and just drive off? What if he was unconscious? what if while in a daze and not realising his surrounding, the person on the road got hit by a speeding car because he was unaware of what was happening due to the state of shock he was in? the list of what if’s could go on and on… but the one act of stopping and helping him would put a halt to all the possibilities.
maybe i’m just being emo thinking about it, but i think i’m feeling disappointed instead. how would you like to be in a similar situation, and noone even bothered to lend a hand?
about 10 minutes of waiting, a motorbike with two guys showed up.. and what happened next was traumatising… one of them pulled out a knife and told me to go home.. while he stole the abandoned motorcycle… thank god i got away with it with no bodily harm.. ok that was a joke..
anyway 10 minutes of waiting, 2 guys showed up on a bike with their McD’s shirts on. I asked them how he was, and they said he was fine.. and asked me what happened and how did he get into the accident. I told them i didn’t know because i wasn’t there to witness it happening and that all i saw was him on the road. they said their thank you’s and left with the bike.
i left the scene with something to think about…
Saturday, June 7th, 2008