Yes. I had a scare just now. It was an after-rain late noon, I was looking out of my bedroom window and to my horror, I saw 2 very young malay kids – one boy and one girl – about 5 yrs and 2 yrs respectively, climbing and standing at the window railing level, looking out of the window… resting their body weight on the railing. It was at the opposite block 3rd storey and distance between 2 blocks was abt 15 metres apart.
As I had heights phobia, my heart nearly jumped out from my mouth when I saw the 2 kids standing at the window railing level… whats worst is that they are waving their hands outside and resting their bodies on the railings. If the railing gave way, both of them would fall from 3rd storey… I observed them for a while and it seemed that no adults were present.
I opened my windows and shouted for the 2 kids to go down and back off… to make matter worst, they heard and saw me, thinking that I was waving at them. Thus, they waved back at me and said Hello… *o dear, they are nice kids but that was not the correct time to do that* Now their body weights rested even more on the railings. My heart was probably at my windpipe just now…
Luckily an Indian neighbour of theirs, came out to hang clothes when I was shouting at the kids and she called her daughter out to see what happened. I shouted across the block, telling them the urgency and they went off to press the kid’s house doobell..
At that point the lil boy left the window, leaving the 2yr old girl alone… THEN she started to climb up the window rails… to what seemed eternity, I was praying that the window railing hold onto it’s root and stayed firm… I prayed for the safety of the kids and wished that some one could do something about it. I was about to call the police.. But FAR WATER CANNOT SAVE NEAR FIRE…
The Indian neighbour came back and said no one answered the doorbell. I shouted and said that the lil kids were still climbing the railing… so they left again and kept pressing the doorbell…
But this time, not sure if it was the parents or the guardian who woke up from nap or came back, the door was answered and the kids left the window. Finally my heart was able to regain its relaxed pacing… I thanked the Indian neighbour and closed my window. *phew*
I was thinking to myself how irresponsible can the parents/guardian be to leave their 2 young kids alone and letting them climb up the window railing so easily (never put anything near window that allows kids to climb up when they are still young)…
Nevertheless, I’m glad I did what I had to…even it maybe small, trivial or embarrassing… cos for a moment to myself (Angel and Devil popped out), I thought I should just ignore them and continue working… but nah.. I just had to do it!
Do and have no regrets later… =)
