A morning
walk can rejuvenate both the body and the mind, but I realised last week that
it could also prove to be entertaining.
I
stepped out on Sharjah’s Al Wahda Street when I noticed a shop cleaner
menacingly waving a broom and trying to crush a cockroach. Every time he
attacked, the insect dodged and eventually rushed onto the footpath.
The
furious cleaner would not give up. His owner was not paying him to spare
creepy-crawlers that intrude into the shop.
One,
two, three..all his attempts missed the target.
Exasperated,
he took a final aim and dashed towards the darting pest, when it happened.
A
cyclist appeared from nowhere, dashed against the “dancing” cleaner and in the
melee the roach made good its escape.
This
wasn’t the only entertainment of the day. When I was returning home, I saw a
man kissing his phone again and again.
“Love
you,” “Love you,” he kept repeating, oblivious of the passers-by watching him.
This
man obviously either lost his heart or his mind.
