Just this morning, it was drizzling as I left the house for work. It was quite a heavy shower, so my sneakers/track-shoes got wet in the process.* Decided to try out the executive toilet at my new workplace within the Technopark. After a week of using the temporary toilet, I welcome the thought of having a hot water shower just before work, as well as to wash off the sticky feeling of wet socks and musty feet**.
The first thing I noticed when I turned the doorknob of the toilet was that it was unlocked. So my HR has warned me the executive toilet is shared by ALL the tenants of the offices along the same level, sometimes you might have ladies using the uni-sexual toilet space. Anyway, what greeted my eyes was a closed cubicle and an open one. So I was thinking, "yea, still got one available shower-stall at least..."
As I closed the door, I noticed a pair of jeans was hanging from the door spring. As my eyes travel up the hems of the jeans, I saw that the guy also took off his briefs while in the toilet! Basket, whoever that person was, he was treating the PUBLIC toilet as if it was his home's one.*** I stifled my laughter and looked around some more. Wa, he left a bunch of keys as well as his wallet on the sill of the wash-basin. Daring... and brainless^.
Well, I made a big hoo-hah of getting into the unoccupied toilet stall. Thanks God the water was already heated up. Since there was an unknown person in the stall next to me, I wasn't taking the chances or the luxuries of taking a slow shower. As I was taking off my clothes in double quick time,^^ suddenly the nice toilet music stopped. Apparently, it was coming from the guy's cell-phone. And the funniest exchange took place. It went like this:
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Other guy: (in terse voice)
Excuse ME, do you know that I am in the in the TOILET?!
Me: (in calm, measured tone)
Er, yes^^^... Are you going to use the shower soon?
Other guy: (still in terse voice)
YES!!
Me: (in humble tone while trying to control my giggles)
Okkkaayyyy... since I'm already in, can I go ahead and use the shower for 5 to 10 minutes?
(Pause for 3 seconds)
Other guy: (in "bway gum guan" voice)
Okay...
[ Bold italics to show where stress is put upon intonation ]
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well, I went ahead and took the best shower of the week. Hah, I know I shouldn't be so gloating, but it's soooOOO funny! "Bway tah han", what a humorous way to start off my Friday... God is good, and He really lightened up my heart with this incident.
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*Dress down friday, no need to wear normal leather shoes mah...
** or is it musKy feet? You get the drift... :p
*** well, to give him all benefits of the doubt, it was before 8am on a rainy Friday morning, who would be so crazy enough so as to use the executive toilet??
^ what the Hokkien would term as "bo-nao", or 没脑...
^^ in about 5 seconds, which is slow already. My RSM (Regimental Sergeant-Major) would have bawled my brains out with lotsa salty language for being so slow...
^^^ *in Bak Chor Mee man's tone* Of course there is someone in the toilet la... If not who does the pair of jeans, briefs, and wallet belong to? the Karang Guni Man meh?! :D
^^^ Hokkien for "Not willing" or 不甘愿.
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