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The Big Bad Wolf came to town!

Last Friday afternoon was a bonding time of sorts for father and son. Danny is an avid reader who finds pleasure in knowing things beyond his tween age of 11. So when news came that Big Bad Wolf was coming to town, I thought of exciting him by bringing him there. Now, the Big Bad Wolf, as the name suggests, is a book warehouse sale put up by the Big Bad publication house of unsold but fairly new books to be sold at dirt cheap prices. Malaysian who find it hard to miss a bargain were turning up in droves in suitcases to carry their bargain home. Paperback bestsellers of Amy Tan, Jeff Archer and Nora Roberts, to name a few, were going at unbelievable price of RM8! (Normal retail price: RM35-40). Hard cover coffee table books were on for RM20!
After goggling the venue, we headed to the sale. We, the tech-savvy people, decided to use the 3G GPS technology to good use. All was fine until we were barely 1 km from the venue. The map told us to go straight when the road was leading to a dirt road and a brick wall! So much for modern technology! Without much choice, we had to use the technology that Christopher Columbus did not use when he discovered The New World - we asked a passer-by. And we reached there...
After parking the car in a vast car-park and walking toward the exhibition hall, we were instructed to take the free tram car which was provided (even though the exposition hall was just visible in stone's throw distance. The tram took one big circle perimeter around the compound just leave us at a distance barely 500 metres from where we started. But we there.
As expected, the fresh crispy smell of new page permeated the hall air and we joined the rampage. Getting a few books for each member of the family (and extra), we could hear a massive storm brewing outside from the splatter of rain drops the PVC roof of the hall. And it poured cats, dogs and the whole barn.
Coming back from the hall was challenge. Whilst parking the car, we were debating whether to bring an umbrella along. Weighing the pros and cons, we made the obviously wrong decision in retrospect. For some unknown reason, the tram was dropping passengers but not picking them. Probably they were worried that the flimsy machines would be swept off the road by the winds!
We finally made it to the car in one piece. We were wet but our loot was still dry still smelling crispy new. Thanks to the marvelous invention of Man called plastic bags in spite the bad publicity of late. It is just like they say, "Guns do not kill people, people do!"
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