the fortune-teller...?

As usual, my weekend is almost incomplete kalau tak pergi merayau kat tesko dekat rumah tu.  I was pushing my trolley along the pet food area when i saw an old man choosing a bag of cat's food.  I assumed he's about CikguMat's age, clad in a blue shirt with a kopiah on his head.  I pushed my trolley passed him, loaded the 8kg cat's food into my trolley and was about to walk away when he called me.  I stopped and turned, tried to be polite to an old man.


He asked me how long will the food last for my cats.  A difficult one to answer since the food is not for my FCs.  Those are for the cats at the parkings, PK's parking lot and mine, and also for any other stray cats and sometimes dogs.  So, since he suggested a time frame, i pun ye kan aje.  He looked at me and said that he predicted that i'll be going for umrah next year.  I was shocked.  Nganga kejap.  He said one of the cat will pray for me.  Okay...i tak percaya pada predictions2 ni semua; of course we can't, syirik tu kan.  Anyway, prediction yang ala2 baik gitu made me just said...Insyaallah.  He continued describing 'the cat', the one who'll be praying for me.  I assumed that pakcik ni sangat sayangkan kucing dia, one of them died sebab accident, and he was wiping his tears as he told me.


Pakcik ni ajak i sembang lagi, pulling my trolley along with him.  He asked about my work and if my husband loves cat too.  I could've just lied kan, but i see no point in lying to an old man.  So, i told him that i don't have a husband.  He told me that i was lucky since he is the only one in his family yang suka kucing.  He told me that kucing dia selalu mengadu kena pukul dengan penyapu.  Haaa? That part buat i mula rasa takut.  He went on predicting that i'll be married in two years time.  He described almost everything about 'the man', his hair, height, perangai, plat motor, macamana i yang akan selalu marah dia (kesian betul, belum apa2 dah ada orang predict my husband asyik kena marah...hahaha)...etc... See...sapa tak takut kan?


I offered myself to return something that he doesn't want to the shelf, hoping to excuse myself from him.  He reluctantly handed the ikan kering to me but still pulling my trolley along with him.  He predicted few other things but in the end i managed to free myself; clinging so hard to the ikan kering takut dia ambik balik and pushed my trolley in a different direction.  I don't even know where the ikan kering belongs in the supermarket, so i just dump it somewhere and continued my shopping.  I must've been thinking a lot about the old man that i forgot a few things in my list; turned my head a few times...mana la tau tiba2 je muncul kat belakang or mana la tau if i was only imagining the conversation with him.


Anyway, i saw the old man again when i was queuing to pay for my things.  So, at least i knew that i takde schizo ke apa, that he really exist.  I tried to avoid looking at him takut dia tunggu i nak bersembang lagi.  I don't want to be rude, lagi2 dia orang tua, but i'm not comfortable with predictions.  I don't know if he really 'saw' things in my face or he's slightly mentally ill or whatever the reason yang menyebabkan dia cakap benda2 macam tu, but i hope not to continue the conversation.  I never want to know my future, betul ke, tipu ke...i just don't, not anymore.  Dulu I always thought that seronok jugak kalau tau what'll happen in the future, adakah hidup i akan senang or susah, with whom will i be living with, how will i look like...macam2 la, but now i know that knowing the future is not something yang seronok.  You'll tend to worry and hope for the thing to happen/not happen and along the way, kita akan kurang berusaha.  But, no worries...i don't believe apa yang pakcik tu bagitau, and it doesn't affect me in any way.  I just hope that kalau dia betul2 di anugerahkan dengan kebolehan tu, he'll use it in a proper way...jangan le tetiba approach orang yang tengah tolak trolley kat pasaraya; or kalau dia ada mental problem, i hope family dia akan treat dia dengan baik, and of course tolong jangan pukul kucing dengan penyapu lagi... hmmm...