The WALK!

It was a cold, silent Saturday eve, almost 8pm. And I woke my roommate up to go for a walk through the streets. Gotta pay the room rent from Netbank, so have to deposit a few colorful notes in my account. The ATM was 1km away and Internet showed there is cash deposition as well, but we seldom knew it's an envelope deposit, which takes time to credit to account.

The next destination was the Coles-supermarket, less than a kilometer away, to buy the stuff for our combined kitchen-cooking experiments!

Hardly covered half the way. An old man, appearing to be in his 60’s, laying fell down in the middle of the road with bleeding on his back of the head!! Two people parking their car and rushing towards him. The street light above his head highlights him from the dark background.

We were frozen up first and then ran towards the man, luckily he was conscious! Here, I made blunder question to the other people- one middle age couple- "Did you hit him!"? She was shocked to hear that and replied "Oh! God. No! Just saw him like this".I felt too bad and apologized for my question. 

The man was trying to stand up, but he couldn't. The smell of Rum. He tried to tell, he was returning from a weekend party and fell down on the road hitting his head. We wanted our best to call an ambulance, but he didn’t let us.

"WTF!!! I am OK!"

"You are not OK.. See the blood.. Please listen to us"

"I don’t have 2000 bucks to pay for police and ambulance"! 

Finally, we made him to sit in the nearby tram waiting shed and did ask for any contact numbers. "Please leave me.. I am OK.. Don’t call my wife.. She is in her 70’s..Please..Thanks for the help...!!" -A big question for my humanity and intuition. We four spend half an hour with him to get any contact numbers, but we were helpless and had to leave when he started shouting at us.Hope he is fine now.. 

NB: Drinking is OK; but don’t be a nuisance to society and threaten your own life, there is another world- when the OFF goes off.