it once happened that my siblings and i were at our evening tuition class on a cloudy day. we were just about to grab a cab and go home when it started to rain heavily....
we couldn't find a single taxi and the ones that did pull over demanded a hefty amount of money. we didn't have that much at hand so we waited for 2 hours in the rain desperately trying to find a taxi.
in the meantime mom was at home and dad was out of town. we didn't have cellphones with us either as the class didn't permit it. mom was getting increasingly worried and she had rung up our tuition teacher. she in turn replied that we had left the place 2hrs ago!!!
we finally decided to pay the amount demanded by the taxi drivers thinking that we would pay them when we reached home.
when we got home 2hrs later because of the traffic, we found that our mom was in tears!!!
she embraced us all at once and pledged never to send us outside alone again.... not even to school!!!
however, the following day started with mom waking us all up for school.... she had calmed down a great deal.....😆