Monkeying around

A couple of days back, as I was walking back home from the bus stop ears stoppled with plugs blaring Lifehouse, a lady walking beside me turned to tell me something and pointed excitedly at the bus stop. I looked where she pointed and saw a monkey sitting on the rubbish bin at the bus stop, digging into it.

I took out one of my earphones and stopped to watch for a while.

The monkey fished out a red plastic bag, shaking and finding it empty, it threw it into the drain behind the bus stop.

“Oh my god!” The lady exclaimed.

Then the monkey took out another bag and looked into it before throwing it away again.

“Oh dear!” She exclaimed again.

I smiled at her, put my earphone back and continued my way home.

The monkey must have made its way to the bus stop all the way from Macritchie, which was a monkey mile away. He must have been really hungry, or the hot weather somehow made him crave human trash.

Oh my god indeed.