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Today at work….

Me: Hey, today we go home later ok? I have so much shit to do.

Sis: You want to wait for your good friend is it?

Me: Who?

Sis: The Mad Man.

Yesterday, I was rushing to send my sister home before I go to my Japanese class. It was a good thing that I left early (as always).

Just after we left, a mentally disturbed man was lurking at the compound of our office. He was said to be lying on the staircase, walking about, talking to himself and looking quite upset.

He tried to come into the office but, he would need access cards to enter the building, he could not. I wonder where the heck are all the guards? Someone is gonna get fired over this.

As one of the executive directors was walking out of the building, the Mad Man pushed the door and rushed inside. He bumped into the director and he (director) almost fell.

Angered, the executive director yelled at him and asked him to go away. Then, another colleague came out and tried to talk the Mad Man to get out from the lobby. He managed to, after some persuasion.

Unhappy, the Mad Man kept banging violently on the glass door while the people inside the office building stared at him in disbelief. Much to their horror, he somehow managed to open the door and came running inside. Everyone lari bertempiaran.

He was seen playing with the phone at the reception area and talking angrily to himself. While he was doing that, a fellow colleague, Mr L was on his way out from the office. He knew something was amiss when he saw a large crowd gathering outside the office, and all of them seemed to be looking inside.

It was then, the Mad Man, who was still playing with the phone, looked up at him. The Mad Man extended his hand for a handshake. Mr L was worried shitless but did not dare to provoke the Mad Man, he touched the Mad Man’s hand briefly. He dared not hold the Mad Man’s hand as he worried the Mad Man might have weapons and hold him hostage. His heart was beating fast and he couldn’t think of what to do next.

The Mad Man looked calm and asked for some water. It was then, Mr L took this as an opportunity to go upstairs again and locked all doors, secured them with umbrellas and warned other colleagues not to go down first. The colleagues on third floor, also warned of the Mad Man, secured all doors by pushing heavy cabinets against the doors. This is a bit over reacting lah. Must be watching too much zombie movies. Fear does weird things to you.

Another colleague, who was oblivious of what was happening, (he must be deaf) went to the lobby’s loo only to find the door locked. He tried to open it and heard someone was inside the toilet. It was the driver who hid there for the fear of the Mad Man’s attack.

The Mad Man went frantic and broke the antenna from the radio on the desk and started swinging it, trying to hit anyone who was trying to take him away. He kicked the table fan which was on the floor and it broke into pieces.

Three brave colleagues came to the rescue and managed to overpower the Mad Man.

Police arrived while they were still struggling to capture the Mad Man. The police just stood there and did nothing. They just stared at the ball of people scuffling about like idiots. So much for paying them with our hard earned money (tax) huh?

This morning, we heard so many versions of the same high drama story. In incident such as this, we would know who were acting cowardly, who were the brave ones, who would withstand unpredictable moments and took action to remedy it, who would just stared at the situation, not doing anything. Thank goodness no one was hurt. I pray that the Mad Man would be in good hands now and be safe.

Oh well. There is never a dull moment working here.