Sleepy bus rider

It was 3:30 p.m. when I took a bus to Senen. I found only one available seat in a long seat in the front. Four people sat next to me.

Everything seemed fine in the first few minutes after the bus left the bus stop. But a few minutes later, one man sitting next to me, obviously asleep, began to shake his head. Wow!

At first, his head was shaking only a little, but then it almost hit my shoulder. The man opened his eyes and looked outside. I was not sure whether he saw anything as his eyes blinked. Minutes later, his eyes closed again and the shaking resumed. I moved forward a little bit to avoid his head bumping into my shoulder. I did not want my shoulder to become a pillow for a sleepy fellow. Unfortunately, something more terrible happened. His head crashed in my back. Seeing what had happened almost everybody in the bus burst out laughing. The noise apparently woke up the sleeping man. Realizing what had happened, he walked towards the door and got off at the next stop. I wonder whether he missed his intended bus stop.

NINA KURNIA WIDHI

Jakarta