Date: 20 Nov 2012
Time: 0935 hrs
Place: junction outside Cathay cinema
I was plugged into my headphones waiting to cross the road when an old man with his dentures a bit out of place wearing a short sleeved shirt and pants asked me for directions to the "lottery place" which I figured he meant Pomo where the Singapore Pools is. I told him to go past the school and turn left at the hotel and that it's the building behind with the letters P O M O and he took out a pen because he didn't quite get it and wanted me to write on his hand. Instead I repeated the directions and he seemed to get it this time and he thanked me and started walking the other way! That's when I saw that there was an old lady using a shopping trolley as a crutch slowly walking with what might be her daughter or in law (she was old herself) and when they got to the junction with us they were discussing in Cantonese whether he knew where it was and he said he had only been there once before but he went by taxi so he doesn't know exactly how. Turns out it was the older lady who won the lottery and she was energetic for her age and went off onwards without really stopping for breath.
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