the military security guard

we got off at harbourfront station trying to rush to the taxi stand before the midnight surcharge kicked in. with all the peak hours and midnight charges and everything it’s a little tricky to remember everything. in our blind rush we exited a glass door and reached the main road where cabs obviously couldn’t stop. seeing that there was a security guard in a stationary pose within the harbourfront building, we went in to ask him where the nearest taxi stand was.

there was something very weird about the guard. i refused to ask him where the taxi stand was before looking at his card which identified him as a security personnel. he was standing the way uniformed people stand, with both hands at the small of his back, posture straight as a rod and not moving at all. even when we asked questions, he remained motionless. other than moving his eyeballs a little and mumbling through his mouth. he moved his eyeballs to look in the general direction of the taxi stand and that was that.

i tell you, harbourfront sure has a weird security guard.