Go Green Auntie Go!

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I never thought the day will come, but it did.

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Place of Momentous Event : carpark infront of Somerset MRT station.

Time : 5.45 pm

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Report of Momentous Event :

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While waiting in the car ( and finishing up the last few pages of The Time Traveller's Wife - again ), I was jolted by an unexpected knock (three knocks actually) on my window from the knuckles of a diminutive, middle-age auntie.

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Curiously I unwind my window, an unpleasant thought suddenly running through my mind wondering if I had accidentally flattened her husband under the wheel or something like that.

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What she curtly said still resonates till this moment.

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She peered over her glasses and calmly uttered this in my petrified face :

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"Please shut off your engine because you are polluting the environment".

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She was righteously right, and I was of course the petrified moron, to say the least. Quickly I said thanks and like a dork I fumbled an easy task to merely twist the key to turn off the engine in about 7.2 seconds later.

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Acknowledging my action, she then hovered elsewhere to educate other awaiting victim-drivers staying cool in their cars - just yet.

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I suddenly felt safe, knowing that we have a local green superhero in our midst, and that I need to tell everyone that Captain Planet is really a Singaporean Auntie in Disguise.