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Danisy panggil dia May-Den. Dia memang suka ke situ. Ada-ada saja nak dibeli. Selalunya barang yang tak masuk dalam senarai. Co*kies cri*p lah, vitag*n lah, yogurt lah, fresh milk lah bla bla bla. Kebanyakannya yang berkaitan dengan makanan sebab Danisy suka makan. Dia juga suka ke situ sebab May-Den is just a 5-minutes walk away from our home.
Tapi apa yang nak Mak Lijah nak citer di sini is not about what we buy in M*din.
...However, sebelum Mak Lijah buka cerita, Mak Lijah nak minta maaf banyak-banyak dulu dari Pak Lijah sebab menyebabkan dia tensen pada skala richter di tahap optimum (rasanyalah) gara-gara dua peristiwa yang berlaku di M*din.
Suatu lewat petang tu, Mak Lijah rasa nak singgah sekejap kat M*din on the way back from office sebab Kakak ada pesan macam-macam barang sekolah plus nak beli barang-barang dapur sekali. Pusing punya pusing, akhirnya dapat lah parking agak jauh sikit, depan stesen minyak M*bil.
By then dah pukul 6.30 petang dan awan dah mula berkumpul plus setitik dua titik air dah jatuh
atas kepala Mak Lijah. Tapi Mak Lijah dah determined to buy barang-barang Kakak hari tu juga sebab she needed them for the next day. Lagipun Mak Lijah estimated that the most I would spend my time there would be only half an hour including the queueing.
So Mak Lijah grabbed all the needed things within 20 minutes which include sotong, ayam, sayur and a few more perishable items... and mula berjalan ke arah kaunter...Sambil mulut terlopong... Dah hujan rupanya. Hujan yang amat lebat pulak tu. Oh...oh... Macamana ni? Kejap lagi nak Maghrib dah. Tak per lah. Tunggulah 15 minit lagi.
Selepas 25 minit.
Hujan masih lebat. Tiada langsung tanda-tanda nak reda apatah lagi nak berenti. Jam dah pukul 7.30 malam.
Kring...kring...(bunyi standard telefon, walaupun handphone tak bunyi lagu tu)
Mak Lijah : Pak Lijah... Dah sampai rumah?
Pak Lijah : Dah.
Mak Lijah : Mak Lijah terperangkap ni, kat M*din. Hujan lebat sangat. Parking keter jauh plak tu. Harus basah kuyup kalau berjalan ke keter (hint..hint...). Bla...bla...bla... Tak bawa payung. Bla...bla...bla... Depan M*bil...
Pak Lijah : bla...bla...bla...
Mak Lijah : Sigh.....
Kring...kring.. (hujan masih lebat)
Pak Lijah : Mak Lijah ada kat mana ni?
Mak Lijah : Depan pintu M*din.
Dipendekkan cerita, Pak Lijah datang dengan kereta, hulurkan payung sambil Mak Lijah hulurkan balik barang-barang yang dibeli tadi. Maka berjalanlah Mak Lijah ke keter dalam hujan yang lebat itu, berpayung, dalam kegelapan malam. Mujur tak kena dinner di kedai mamak kat situ.
Terima kasih Pak Lijah...
*Sambungan* - A Revisit
After that peristiwa, I went back to M*din about a week later sebab nak buy some stuff since Mak and Ayah were coming over from Teh's house. This time around, I decided earlier that I would be spending just a little bit longer in M*din sebab ada banyak barang dapur yang nak dibeli. Lagipun the weather looked clear and tak ada tandapun nak hujan.
Alhamdulillah, kali ni dapat parking betul-betul depan pintu keluar M*din.
Among others, Mak Lijah beli ikan, sayur, cili, ulam, bihun, roti, calci-y*m, dan macam-macam lagi benda yang berat-berat lah, and tak lupa juga susu pekat sebab Ayah takes tea like five times a day, an old habit which he cannot give up since as long as I can remember. He is addicted to having tea every single day.
So when I was satisfied with everything that I needed, Mak Lijah pun berjalanlah ke kaunter untuk membayar. Sambil cashier dok scan barang-barang tu, Mak Lijah menyeluk-nyeluk my Co*ch handbag to look for my car keys. Senang... pegang siap-siap kunci, tak payah nak tercari-cari masa nak ke kereta nanti. That critical time could be the time when a peragut would grab the opportunity to start work.
After paying, sangkut handbag kat bahu, cop resit (I don't know why they have to do that), Mak Lijah pun pergilah ke kereta carrying all the heavyloads with both my hands, with much difficulties. Oleh kerana beratnya itu, lima langkah dari pintu keluar M*din pun rasa macam berjalan 5 kilometer... Mujurlah kunci keter Mak Lijah ni yang jenis boleh buka boot kereta dari jauh.
Sampai jer kat kereta, cepat-cepat Mak Lijah push-opened the boot dengan siku, lifted all the stuff dengan saki-baki kudrat yang ada (lepas ni sure dah build-up muscle) dan GEDEBUM... Mak Lijah lepaskan semua barang dan terus SLAM...! Fuuhh.... Lega....
Kring...kring....
Mak Lijah : Pak Lijah ada kat mana?
Pak Lijah : Dah nak sampai. Kenapa?
Mak Lijah : Erk... I think I am locked-out of the car.
Pak Lijah : Huh? Laa.... Macamana... bla...bla..bla...
Mak Lijah : Entah... Lepas tutup boot tadi, cari kunci dah tak ada.
Pak Lijah : Mak Lijah kat mana ni? Dah cari dekat-dekat situ?
Mak Lijah : Baru habis shopping kat M*din. Rasanya kunci termasuk sekali dalam boot masa (GEDEBUM...) masukkan barang-barang tadi. Bla...bla..bla.. (excuse....excuse...)
Pak Lijah : Ingat tak kunci spare ada kat mana?
Dipendekkan cerita, Pak Lijah came to pick me up kat M*din so that we could go home and look for the keys together although the custodian of any keys is solely Pak Lijah.
Half an hour later we finally found the keys somewhere and we drove back to M*din together. Nasib baik Pak Lijah insisted to park and help me with the keys, walaupun Mak Lijah dah kata that I would be fine because... the keys couldn't work! Puas tekan sana sini, ketuk-ketuk dan macam-macam kaedah lagi... sampai Pak Lijah dah almost run out of patience and decided to call his mechanic-friend from the service centre that we visit frequently.
While he was busy dialling, Mak Lijah grabbed the keys and decided to do it my way. Masa tu, we were at the side of the car, dekat pintu drebar and as I was walking towards the boot, La illa ha illa anta sub-haka inni kuntum minnazzolimin... tekan-tekan the button of the keys and.........
...the lights flashed twice...
And since then, Mak Lijah dah fobia about going to M*din. But then again, that's the best place to stop after work sebab sangat convenient.
How lah, then?
