Jul 28 2006
Corpse Call
RIING ! She was watching Spongebob, jumped up from her seat, and runs to her room to pick up the phone. RIING ! The phone keeps ringing, and she rushes looking for her HP, which for the sake of God she forgets where she put on. RIING ! She swirls her desk, rolls her mattress, unloads all of the packs of the cakes in her bag, but she still cannot find her HP. RIING ! Finally after a second she grouses, she finds her HP inside the coat that she has thrown into her laundry basket. “Yes, hello?..Yes, this is Moel..Huh, what?! Allright, allright..Yes, Sir, we’ll be there!”
At the other wing of the house, my another gal, Ruhn, 24, has slept away by smiling of her dream, before suddenly she hears the hammers on her way. She shakes her head, wishes that it’s just a one second trouble, but that so-unblessed-hammering still don’t disappear. She opened up her eyes, and at the moment the dream is over. The hammering isn’t a dream, it’s real. And it bothers much. “Ruhn, wake up!” shouts Moel outside. “We gotta get to the hospital now!”
Otherwise, inside the bathroom, my gal Lass, 24, is enjoying her shampooing. Her head is full of foam when Ruhn knocks her door, “Lass! We’re leaving now! Another new corpse to work!”
“Oh sh*t!” grouses Lass instead. She rinses her hair, then by just girding the towel on her naked body, she gets outta the room and snatches away her HP.
And I am sorting my fashion outfits for laundry. Doily, get into the red pails. Jeans, into the blue one. Wools, no wash-machine, please. Underwear, hm..which pail does it go to?
And I really don’t hear the phone rings from Lass. The thing I know is a second later my sista yells out, “Vicky, autopsy!”
I throw my underwear into the pails upset. It fails again, my plan to do laundry tonight.
Belle, 24, my friend, is drooling when he watches the dishes of dinner on his table. He’s confused to pick up which one he’s gonna eat first: chicken soto, fried rice, or pempek? And he’s gonna insert his first sop into his mouth when I calls up, “Belle, autopsy!” That’s it, and I hang up the phone. We’ve gotta be in the hospital in 15 minutes, while my house is on the end of the world.
Me and Belle arrive on the corpse chamber a few moments after the three of our fellas came, surrounding a black body which laid rigidly on the table. Die of burn. His face is unrecognizable. It’s clear that he’s been baked into sandbank. The person who brings him in, it happened in a noodle place at Naripan. This man was in the kitchen, pouring the oil, when the damn fire explodes and snatches him. He was shocked, nervous, and couldn’t move to rescue himself. Somebody whispered that he’s got epilepsy.
And we’ve gotta autopsy him. Oh God, as like as there’s no other more important work to do. Ruhn’s eyes are blinking coz she’s still sleepy. Lass is still wet-haired. Belle is still grousing around coz I’ve disturbed his extravaganza dinner. And I still can’t believe that I must leave my laundry coz a dead patient called me. I haven’t even changed my clothes, I just wear my mini skirt and beach sandal when I autopsy him. At least my dream to look like Dana Scully has come true.. J











