the red hag
Ah Seng was chauffering us to lunch yesterday and was strolling along a serene street when I noticed a blip. A bright red colored blip, at the end of the stretch. I wasn’t sure what was that, but it sure looked like someone wearing a clown suit.
As we moved closer towards the blip, it became more and more apparent, that it’s a … housewife. Wearing a bright fluorescent red flowery pajama dress on a red bicycle. She was stunt cycling with one hand maneuvering the bicycle handle, and the other hand holding a fully fledged red umbrella (shielding the harmful UV rays from the sun, yeah right). I’ve never seen someone who’s so fond of reds before. (a Liverpool fan perhaps ?).
She’s probably in her late 50’s and was with a shoulder length neatly cut straight hair - a cross between He-Man’s hairstyle versus Mia Wallace’s of Pulp Fiction (you got the idea). Her face resembled a typical old hag and she was wearing a pair of very thick glasses.
Barf cycle ? She worths about 1.5….. with 0.5 attributed to her ludicrous dressing. I was about to laugh myself stupid when I started to have this conscience, you know, that I shouldn’t ridicule at people too much. It’s bad karma. So I stopped and told myself that there’s nothing wrong with that lady … and I should just get a life.
Fine. Ah Seng’s car strolled closer towards that housewife, with me still gazing at her in an appalled manner. I have this subconscious voice that kept telling me that she doesn’t actually looked silly cycling with an open umbrella and looked so bloody red at the same time. I was suppressing myself real hard already.
It went on well, until suddenly, a mutt leapt out of nowhere and started to give chase to that red hag. As red hag was cycling at a very slow pace, it took no trouble at all for that dog to catch up on her. The dog started to sink it’s snappers onto the red bike’s puny tyres. Zweeeekkk ! I can feel the friction as the dog’s head got dragged down by the moving rubber and smacked flat onto the paved road. It then rolled a couple of times before getting up to gave chase again.
“HAHAHAHAHHHHHH !!! FUCK !!!!” I yelled in tears, pointing at red hag’s direction.
Red hag panicked and I can see her bicycle started to wobble like a whole population of rabbits humping on it in the same resonance. She hasten her cycling pace and for the second time, that dog caught up on her. This time, it attempted to bite her fluttering red dress … to which, she tried to maneuver her bike in a winding manner, in hope to confuse the dog. And she’s fucking doing it with ONE HAND !
But her efforts were futile, whatever she’s trying to do, as the dog caught up on her again. That was when she used her umbrella to shield the dog off. The dog was of a ‘die hard’ breed and was relentlessly trying to get around the umbrella. As the mutt was faster than the bike, it actually forces red hag to paddle faster when it’s head pushes against that her umbrella. So, the red hag’s kinda like going faster by the seconds while she had to deal with that menacing canine from behind.
I was laughing in such an extreme that my voice’s inaudible and I’ve got tears welling up my eyes + rolling down my cheeks, in the verge of blacking out
The whole episode of frivolous happenings then came to an end, when the dog decided that he had had his fun of the day. (so did I). I bet that could be the last time she would ever wear that flagrant dress in public. (If only she’d known earlier … that not only bulls are attracted to red colors …)
Now, I finally learnt the ultimate truth - that dogs are indeed men’s best friend. They help us to chase off weirdos and finks alike, making our world a better place to live. Long live the dogs !
