Halfway Toilet Break
As the bus travelled along, I thought to myself it was just going to be another normal journey for me getting from point A to B. After all, how more exciting can a bus ride get?
I sat in my seat in front (two seats away from the bus driver) and minded my own business as more passengers boarded the bus. It got pretty crowded at one stage. I was thanking my good fortune as I had boarded earlier and was lucky I got a seat.
As the bus cruised along the street, I thought I heard the bus driver speak. Initially, I thought he was talking to the passenger seated behind him. But no, he wasn’t. In fact, the bus driver was mumbling to himself. A mumble it may be, but it was still audible to be heard by me.
“Today raining day…drink too much water…need to go already…”
No sooner had he finished his sentences when the bus suddenly stopped outside Sultan Mosque. No, it wasn’t a traffic red light stop. In fact, there was no traffic light at all.
The bus driver just parked the bus there along the pavement, opened the front door and rushed out.
Still trying to figure out what was happening, my eyes soon found the answer I needed. Scrawled on the dashboard of the bus were three lines written in blue marker pen.
1/2 way
toilet
12.43 – 2.45pm
‘Halfway toilet break’ announcement written on the dashboard of the bus
Very interesting…the bus driver had abandoned the bus load of passengers and ran off to the toilet inside the mosque!
I couldn’t help laughing when I sat there. Using my camera phone, I took a picture of the words written next to the CCTV camera. If you see carefully, you can actually see my reflection in the front mirror too…hehe
A quick time checked showed that the time was now 13.37pm. Wow…the bus driver really makes good his words of taking a halfway toilet break huh.
All my years of taking the public bus, this is the first time I have encountered such an incident! The bus driver probably couldn’t control his bladder anymore and had to release.
After he returned, the first thing he did was to erase the ‘1/2 way toilet’ words. I wonder when his next toilet break is.
