There was this cranky security guard at General Hospital - now, anyone with a blue pass can enter in at any time, and can bring alone one partner. This f*ing guard said "One person only" with a stern tone. Irritated, but still lucky enough to have kept my composure, I yelled, "Then we're outta here !"
Thing is, you do not change byelaws as and when you wish. The government hospitals have set rules ; the authorities are there to add slight variations to the rules depending on the density of the population. Had I lost my cool there, I'd have packed a punch and landed the guard into ICU. Oh, with a diabolical laugh too.
But aiyoyo, the things we can do to just go stock-free !
When evening came and mom had come back from a biopsy, we decided to go and see her. We came there at around 4:10 and there seemed to be no way to get in. Dad suggested that we went through the Emergency Room entryway while he went to park the car. And so we did : through the Non-Critical Zone, and past the Pathology Department, and je ne sais quoi - up a flight of stairs and on to the first floor, past the X-Ray/Radiology Department, the outpatient clinic, several other departments - before realising we were actually lost. Narin and I asked help from another security guard (this one looked older, seasoned and more experienced). And this one was definitely more polite than the one at the ground floor. Finally, after realising that the cafeteria was just right in front of us, we knew where to go. We went past the library, several other departments... and finally arrived at the lift.
And when we arrived there, we ended up at the South Tower (not the North Tower as it was supposed to be) - and there was no way we could get up there, or so we thought. The middle lift was stuck at the first floor and had already broken down. The nurses next to us also heaved sighs of despair. It had broken down since yesterday ! But right in front of our very eyes, there was divine intervention - the lift worked all by itself, opened, and before we knew it, we were all on the fifth floor !
By the time we made it up there, it was 4:26 - now, if we had waited downstairs while heeding that cranky security guard, we still would have waited, and we wouldn't have come up by then. And for the amount of people waiting outside, it would probably take us four lifts before we could ever make it to the fifth floor. And mom would be worried sick. Touch wood.
We walked almost 1 kilometre just to arrive early. But well, such are the things we can do just to arrive stock-free. *smiles*
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