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When I felt like an action hero in the mall

 

6 months later I had gotten a chance to go out, it’s not that I saw the world after 180 days I just didn’t get a proper reason to move out, but today was different. We had run out some grocery and my brother and I decided to go to the mall and get whatever we need, we packed some of the extra bags with since we knew how we shop and they charged us extra for those feeble plastic bags they have there.

All set with the essentials we arrived at the mall, much to my surprise the mall was just crowded as they were before the lockdown, the COVID-19 era hadn’t changed much of the human society, we go out just as much, only that we wear a mask when we go out. that’s it!

We reached and wondered the place, nothing has changed, all, as usual, we collected all that we needed and head out. I noticed an old lady standing in front of the line, she was quite strange, wearing a scarf, a knitted sweater with an umbrella in her hand, and a baby pink sari inside. I wondered who wears baby pink! As if all of her attire is not weird enough, I guess after an age you just run out of fu*ks to give. She was in that stage.

Naturally my gaze happened to pass on the things she bought. The trolley was almost empty, with some biscuits and sanitary pads. I instantly thought she still gets periods!! Holy shit!... naa she won't be needing it, would she?

In the line besides ours, I saw a man without a mask, and I went into emergency mode on the spot, I have this thing where I stop my breath if I am not in a comfortable place, this time I felt that this guy could be dangerous to all. He was soaking wet, came in with a hat and raincoat, straight out of a dumpster it felts, must be a local who feels that this place is his second home, there are people like, coming in and going out of grocery stores and mall as they’re the staff.

I was thinking all this when I felt that he was going to sneeze and as if my spider sense goes turned on, I saw the world slow down, all I had in front of me was this lady’s umbrella, within a fraction of the second I grab her umbrella and flash it open protecting us. Turns that guy did sneeze and that too on the umbrella. Fortunately, we got it covered.

The crowd got furious, everyone was there to scold him and even the manager was rushed there with the sanitizers and a disposable mask, we made him apologize for not wearing a mask in public.

Later the woman thanked me for saving us and was impressed by my reflexes. She was a nice lady after all.

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