yesterday morning, as usual left my place at 6:35am and took service #136 to work. nothing special and i was still sitting at the 2nd right row of the 2nd deck of the double decker. this sit has been my favorite sit because i could watch the mobile TV as well as enough light to read my "Today" newspaper during my 45mins trip to work.
the trip was smooth with many students boarding at various bus stops at sengkang and 80% of them alighting at Serangoon Secondary School. Well, the journey went on smoothly till the bus was approaching Serangoon Garden along Serangoon Garden Way. Out of sudden, there was something flashes right in front of me with a loud bang. The windscreen was cracked by a coconut felt from the coconut tree along the road side. To my amuse, it must be a very big impact otherwise the windscreen will never crack. Fortunately, it was just a crack and not fully smash else I will be injure. Right in the first row on the left was a school boy who take it that nothing had happen.
Soon, the bus was stop at the bus stop and the bus captain (Singapore way of calling the bus driver) came and asked if we were fine. We told him everything was fine other than the cracked windscreen. He proceeded to call and report the situation to the bus headquarter while we waited in the bus. 5 mins later, another bus of the the same service came and we transferred to that bus.
Well, this add some spices to the normal and monotonous riding life of the bus journey. I hope that there will be more excitement but no injury or death. haha.
look at the crack, the force must be very great to crack the windscreen.
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