Today my 83-year-old dad gave my mum and me quite a scare! 😅
Our neighbour and her family are away on holiday, and before leaving, she WhatsApped my mum to ask if we could help keep an eye on her parcels. Well… apparently she did quite a bit of online shopping before going away because almost every day we’ve been helping to receive parcels for them! 😂
This afternoon, after a heavy downpour, a Shopee delivery guy arrived with yet another parcel. Their gate was locked, so the delivery guy simply flung the parcel into their porch. He didn’t want to leave it outside on the pillar because he was worried someone might steal it.
My dad saw the parcel and immediately sprang into action. Before my mum and I knew it, he had dragged out a ladder and a heavy wooden high stool. His grand plan? To climb over the wall separating our porches to retrieve the parcel!
Mum panicked and shouted for me to help stop him. I ran downstairs and tried to reason with Dad, but stubborn and determined as always, he insisted on carrying out his “mission.” First, he lifted and threw the heavy stool over the wall. Then he climbed up the ladder from our side to get across.
The porch floor was still wet and slippery from the rain, so Mum and I were terrified he might fall. I held onto his hand tightly while he was climbing, but Dad yelled at me to let go because apparently I was “restricting his movement!” 🤣
Very slowly and carefully, he made it across to the neighbour’s porch, climbed down the stool, retrieved the parcel, and passed it back to me. Then he hauled the stool back over the wall, climbed back across, came down the ladder safely… and proudly completed his mission. 😅
Mission accomplished indeed — but not before giving Mum and me heart attacks in the process!
Honestly, imagine an 83-year-old man doing this! And I still can’t help wondering why our neighbour ordered so many things online knowing they’d be away for an entire week 😅