It's a Manic Monday

This was the title of an email I received from The Pest today. After reading through what seems like total mayhem that ensues when one's car breaks down in the middle of a KL highway during the peak hours on a regular workday, I wondered whether my story is worthy of being considered manic at all.

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After a whole day of working on flavors, I stopped by the gym to exercise and picked up some groceries. Sounds like a normal routine day, hmm?

[third person reference]

Mave opens the door and goes "Yoohoo, I'm home...."

(0__0) ;;;

"What the....?"

*stares at the haze clouding the whole apartment*

Mave spots JJ, landlady's son sitting in the living room, engrossed in his computer game.

"Hey! Why is it so smoky? Did you guys burn something?"

JJ's eyes widens and he runs to the kitchen.

Mave drops her groceries and rushes into the kitchen. She finds a pot of charred pasta sitting on the stove.

"Tiiinnggggggggg!"

Landlady's daughter runs into the kitchen and starts groaning. "OH NO!!!! My FOOD!"

As she runs around to clear up the mess, Mave looks on the ground and notices something else.

Small specks that remind her of only one thing: Blood.

(0__0);;;;

"What the...??!!"

*notices the blood on JJ's right big toe*

"Hey! What happened to you?! How did you get that?! Are you OK? Do you need a plaster?"

"Eh....it's OK. I think."

*JJ wanders off to living room*

"AHHH?? What are you doing? Don't use stationary tape!! Aiyo!!!"

*gets wet tissue paper to wipe up small specks of blood that seemed to have dripped from the living room to the kitchen*

"Argh, you're friggin' bleeding. Did you know that? Gosh, you're a biological hazard now. Your blood is all over the place."

*proceeds to clean up blood spots*

Ting groans. "My dinner ah......how now? I have to finish my homework."

"Ting, be careful. The stove is still hot. Soak that pot in the hot water. Can wash later."

*runs off to get plaster, cotton and healing ointment*

"JJ, why don't you go and wash that first?"

*attends to JJ's toe and looks at Ting messing around in the sink, trying to flush down the charred noodles aka hide the evidence*

"Hey, don't do that. It's OK. I'll cook dinner for you. Just go do your homework. But hang on, one thing at a time! First things first. Got to settle the blood thingy and your brother's toe first."

After JJ cleans up his wound and attaches the plaster, Mave proceeds to clean up the mess on the stove.

"Urgh, there's plastic thingy on the stove....what happened? How did you leave something plasticky near the stove? It has melted now....aiyo."

Everyone knew when Landlady aka Mum comes home, some heads would roll.

[/third person reference]

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True enough, Mum was blazing mad when she came home. I fled into my room to avoid the wrath in the form of a torrential list of angry Mandarin words. She wasn't kidding when she said that she was born in the Year of the Dragon. XD;;; At that moment, I was so glad that I'm not the one getting scolded. Hehehe......

In retrospect, this experience made me wonder how my mum had to put up with all my messes and mistakes. It also made me wonder what type of mum I would be. Could I made a good mother? Having kids can be difficult and challenging. Perhaps, experiences like this serve as small step preparations for such a future.

Oh and btw, if you're curious, check out The Pest's Manic Monday. At least, it doesn't involve a bunch of careless teenage kids. XD