Scary, Nightmarish Ordeal

Last night, after my wife and i dropped our son at the in-laws, my wife passed me a plastic bag which i mistakenly thought was garbage to be thrown away. It is a habit which i'm very accustomed to because everytime i leave my mother-in-law's place, i would help her to dispose of one or two plastic bags of garbage.

In actual fact, the plastic bag did not contain garbage to be dumped but my wife's handphone and wallet!

Then i walked to the rubbish chute hopper and casually dumped the bag down the chute.

My wife panicked and screamed "That plastic bag has my wallet and handphone inside!"

It was heart-wrenching to see her panic-stricken face as tears were welling up in her eyes that very instant.

We quickly scurried down to the first floor via the lift and went to the garbage dump.

Opened the shutter. I climbed up the garbage dump and found a door that leads into the pile of garbage. There was a broom lying at the door. I used the broom and fished out the plastic bag with my wife's handphone and wallet intact.

Thank God for letting us retrieve my wife's wallet and handphone without too much trouble.

The dump was pretty disgusting with lots of roaches crawling around. What do you expect? It's a garbage dump.

If we could not access the dump, we we would have to call town council for help. We'd probably have to wait until the the next morning for the dump truck to pick up the rubbish and get the rubbish collectors to help us retrieve the plastic bag.

This is certainly a brief but horrendously frantic and nightmarish experience for us.