Paying it forward

I arrived to work running from the rain. It started out no more than a drizzle before the heavier drops found their momentum. Alas it became impossible for mod king and I to head for our regular kopi fix without an umbrella.

As we chatted online and commented about the big dip in the stock prices today, he suddenly suggested that we should just heck it and go for our drink. Mother Nature is not going to stop us. He did ask me if we should bring a brolly, which I blindly think its not necessary.

And what a bad idea that was.

We ran from our office, crossing the street and arrived drench. Putting on our wet smiles, we ordered our daily fix. The saving grace is that our kopi is at least nice and sweeter than before.

As we stood outside, we saw a lonely brolly. Its probably forgotten by its owner and sadly abandon there. We looked into each other and its mutually agreed that that would be our brolly to bring us back to office.

When we arrived back, we left this brolly there for someone else to use. Its our way of paying it forward. Hopefully this would start a chain of events that no one would ever need to bring a brolly out every again.

PS. the pic above is the ulimate brolly from Blade Runner.

UPDATE: The brolly was gone after lunch the same day. See it works