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Living near a military base has its advantages and disadvantages

Once there was a man in my bus, claiming that he was from a massage clinic and offers a free message. He shook my legs without even asking, saying that it was a technique.

Surely enough my the shaking caused my cellphones to pop out from my pocket and I guess his accomplish, sitting next to me was about to pick it up.

The man smiled at me, panicking that his MO was unravelled. He politely asked me where I lived, and I told him that I lived in KODAM military complex.

The two, terrified of the possibility that I was related to an officer, got off the bus, together, so that proves that they knew each other and was working together.

I guess that’s the advantage

But just the other day, as I was going to a friend’s house. An officer with a camouflage jacket and trousers and boots got in my bus, and sat in front of me. His eyes were fixed on me for some reason:

Man: “You’re from Poso?”

Poso is a place in Central Sulawesi with repeated religious conflict

Me: “No, why?”

Man: “You look like from Poso, my friends died in Poso, just last week. Are you sure your not from Poso”

Me: (Sweating heavily) “No sir, I’m not”

Man: “My friends were stationed in Poso, they were patrolling one night, it was raining…………… A tree fell and hit them”