Friday, November 12, 2010

Grandpa

84 years old, his health is getting worse days by days. Although he can still thinks properly, and his memory is still good, but his legs are really weak already, he can hardly go anywhere without his walking stick, and even walking with his stick is a challenge. Out of his grandsons, he love Khoi the most since Khoi is the only one that graduated from a university.
Once, he wasn't feeling really well so he asked Khoi to give him a ride to the local hospital and have his health check. Khoi doesn't seem so happy about the whole helping thing, but he does it anyway since father would probably yell at him if he refused.
Summer, it's boiling hot outside, 38 or 39 degree Celsius. Khoi rode over speed limit, and flew to the local hospital since of course he doesn't want to stay outside when everything was microwaving by the Sun. At the entrance, Khoi helped his grandpa to get down from the motorbike, carefully not because he cares if grandpa was going to fall or not but to prevent any scratch on his brand new motorbike from grandpa's old sandals, which were made from wood. Khoi gave his grandpa the walking stick and told grandpa to stand there and wait for him. Khoi rode the motorbike to the parking lot, indoor parking lot so that it will not be damaged by the sun, not to forget to talk to some of his friends who are working as the parking lot's keepers. Then flirted with some girls who just happens to pass by to park their bikes.
Somewhere near the entrance, an old man is still standing at one place on his two legs, shaking, waiting for his beloved grandson.


LilCookieJar ~ Bao Nguyen

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