In Other Words

Toilet Humour

I was sitting on the toilet, taking the children to the pool and enjoying it, when I heard this voice coming from the cubicle next to me

“Hello?” it said.

Now this was slightly disturbing, as I wasn’t used to being talked to while I was releasing the chocolate hostage, but being a friendly person I said, “Hi.” Hoping that the tone of voice I used made it abundantly clear that this wasn’t making me too comfortable.

“Hi… How are you?” the voice asked.

Now somebody saying ‘Hello’ to you in the toilet is already a bother, but then you expect them to ask a follow up question like ‘do you have any extra toilet paper’ or ‘is it you that stinks so bad?’, but not ‘How are you’, as that raises all these uncomfortable realisations about what you’re doing and what that means. Still, now that I had started the conversation I couldn’t very well stop, could I?

“Fine, yourself?” I answered back, hoping that that would be the end of it.

“I’m good” the voice answers back, but then doesn’t stop there and asks “What are you doing?”

Now this was a decidedly below the belt question. I thought it was pretty clear what I was doing and that he had now thoroughly disturbed my faxing attempt.

“I think it’s pretty obvious what I’m doing, would you be quiet?” I loud whispered back angrily. This was insane! If he kept on talking to me any longer I was going to give him a piece of my mind. Then the voice said.

“Look, I’m going to have to call you back, this guy in the next stall keeps answering all the questions I’m asking you.”

As you can well guess, I didn’t come out of that stall for the next half hour.

posted by Symbol @ 23.9.04