Another Sunday morning is coming, but today it’s become a
little bit different than my usual Sunday morning. Well, today will got many difference
than my usual vocation. I was in Jakarta – Indonesia Capital City - for these
five days, and today will back to Medan – the city where I do live.
I come from Medan to Jakarta with 7.50 WIB flight at Wednesday
January 25, 2015 for work reason. My company head office was here in Jakarta,
and there is some work I have to do there. Sky was so clear that day, not like
lately weather in Medan.
I managed to finish my task faster so I get some free time
on Saturday, I have been planned to go back at Sunday (today). My friend and I
want to visit Safari Park in Cisarua-Bogor on Saturday, so I bought my ticket
at Friday afternoon. In my mind, my eyes and all my memory told me that I was
buy airplane ticket for 16.20 WIB flight on Sunday 25 January 2015. I feel at
ease because I already spare much time to go to Church at Sunday before me going
to the Airport. I got the reminder short message, and even download the ticket
from e-mail. I read it many times and really sure that my flight was on 16.20
WIB. Then, finally the Sunday is coming. I feel so comfortable and don’t think
much, I prepare myself to go to church with my friend. Everything already
prepared well, I think. I even have time to eat lunch with her before I go to
Gambir Station to go to Soekarno-Hatta Airport by bus.
And the sudden shock come to me when I already on the Bus, I
read my ticket and realize that I already miss my flight. It is not 16.20 WIB
flight I buy, its 12.20 WIB flight and my watch show 13.30 WIB. I check the
reminder short message and it is for 12.20 WIB. What going on me, why I cannot
see it. Hurriedly buy another ticket and got 19.30 WIB Flight which expensive. Now
I do double check, I read word by word and number by number, worried that I miss
something.
Spending IDR 690.000 for nothing feel suck, but thanks God, I
still got some ticket to come back home or I will get punishment for absent. But
for coming late, I got another experience at the Airport. I meet two middle age
women that bring to many handbags for them to handle, and it quite heavy. I offer
them a help, to bring one bag for them. One of them, the older, is going first
with the escalator. In the middle way, she suddenly stumbles over because of
the heavy handbags and rolled down. A nice young man catch her but he become
stumble too and start falling, the second woman run try to catch but follow to
fall because of the working escalator. I run and push the emergency stop
button, the second woman was in my side, the older woman was under her and the
young man somehow still standing and I nearly kiss his shoes (not romantic
meeting LOL) .
Many people come to us with caring attitude, everyone want
to help those women, but instead of helping, they just disturbing and make
those women cannot stand. So I reach out to the oldest and take the heavy box
that disturbing her so she can stand and take them with me to the elevator for
people in need. The elevator cannot take three of us with all the baggage, even
when I get out, it still exceed. I have to take one bag with me and leave them
alone. I can see the worried sight in their eyes, I don’t know they feel sorry
because I cannot go with them in the elevator or worry I will take their
belonging away. So I go up running by stairs, nearly run out of breath, but too
shy to say. Acting cool, I stand in the front of the elevator (which a bit slow
I guess for one floor up) waiting for them. Take another heavy box with me and
go to waiting room checking gate. And yet another thing held me back, the box I
bring questioned by the officer. Of course I cannot answer what is in it, it is
not mine. So I need to wait there until the owner coming and explain and let that
box to recheck. We are lucky that nothing illegal in it. I take them to their
waiting room gate and leave them there. I am tired, nearly out of breath (I almost
never take sport), but acting cool when they come after me. Seeing their ‘thankfully’
eyes and warm thank you make me think that it is worthy. I feel at ease now
wait for my flight at the lounge and write it down before I am too busy and
forget it.
