On The Bus #28... or The Sleeping Ah Beng

So there was this non-Chinese guy who looked to be in his late 20s who boarded the bus. He held a plastic bag in one hand, and both his arms were tattooed all the way up to the sleeves of his shirt.

So he sat two seats away from me on the bus.

He took out two sandwiches from his plastic bag (now empty), and began munching away at one on the bus. He held the other one in his other hand with the plastic bag. Halfway into chewing on his sandwich, his eyelids drooped and he fell asleep.

I watched him fall into a slumber, nodding away with the rhythm of the bumpy bus ride. His half-eaten sandwich was still in his hands.

Then he dropped his half-eaten sandwich onto the bus floor.

He jumped wide awake, and picked up the sandwich to put in his plastic bag. He resumed chewing the remainder of the first sandwich, and took another bite off the second sandwich.

While chewing halfway, his eyelids closed on him and he fell asleep again, holding the second half-eaten sandwich.

A bump somewhere along the road made him drop his second and last sandwich onto the bus floor.

He jumped wide awake again, and picked the sandwich off the floor and put it in his plastic bag.

He chewed up the rest of his sandwich and went to sleep again.