Manifestas

I was in a bus on my way home after the NLS paper yesterday. A primary school boy and his mother sat on the seat in front of me. It was a hot day so the mother told her son to adjust the aircon bulb on top of them so that it would face her.

"I can't reach it," the boy said while stretching his arm.
"Yes, you can. Just climb and stand on the seat," said the mother.

For a while I became appalled by the mother's suggestion. Children standing on seats with their dirty shoes on is my pet peeve. It is inconsiderate for the parents to let them do that, what more suggesting that to them.

So I had just wanted to roll my eyes when the boy looked at his shoes and declined his mother politely in Malay. "Tak nak."

I smiled and whispered to myself, "Good boy,".

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I was crossing the overhead bridge on my way from school and I saw a middle-aged Chinese man sitting on the long seat at the TP bus-stop. His 2 dogs were lying on the seat too. Although they were leashed, I thought it was insensitive of the man to let his dogs get on the public seat. First of all, dogs don't wear shoes. And even if they do, they don't sit like humans do. And even if they do, they pee in public and don't wash after (I know some people don't wash themselves either but that's another story). You get my point.

In that instance I imagined a superhero to educate that uncle and sanitize the seat with his powers. What should I call him? The Sterile Man? Haha..