Unusual Incident

So there I was, on a normal weekday, serving my NS. I was in my army uniform, sitting in a 3 tonner truck, with an instructor beside me guiding me along. I went along that familiar stretch of road in Tampines which I always see every week, the junction just outside my house.

Red light. I came to a stop. Waited like any other red lights, and preparing to move. As my hand shifted to the handbrake, my instructor warned.

'See that old man over there? Stop.' It was already green light for me.

I turned my head, and to my surprise, it was my Grandpa pushing his wheelchair amidst moving cars in his direction. The red man had already lighted. No one was helping to push his wheelchair.

The cars in my direction slowed down. I was relieved, yet disturbed at the dangerous situation in front of me. Grandpa could barely see anything 5 metres in front of him, yet he always insisted on going out on his own. That was why he missed the green man.

As he reached to the other side of the road, safe now, he comically beckoned for me to move on, apologizing for obstructing the traffic, totally unaware that it was his grandson who was watching everything worriedly in that huge truck.

I wonder if my instructor would believe me if I had told him, 'That's my grandpa.'