Encounter Of The 4th Kind |2:49 PM

Acquaintances, “friends” from the past whom you are no longer friends with now and acquaintances from the past, in order of decreasing closeness are probably people you either choose to or unknowningly forget. They are also people whom you either don’t meet up with or hope that you won’t be stuck in awkward situations with, e.g the lift or worse, the TOILET!!!! In the rest of this entry, they will regarded as people of the 4th kind.

When one is relieving himself or herself in the toilet, one would most probably at his/her most defenseless and vulnerable state and would definitely be not ready an out of the blue encounter of the 4th kind. Well, I was at one of the urinals today, doing what I should be doing and minding my own business, then “POOF” a very magnificent specimen of the 4th kind took a urinal right next to me. He probably had little choice too as all other cubicles and urinals were also occupied. Initially, I did not notice him as he was from way back, all I have of him in my memory is a face with no name attached to it.

Then, his voice suddenly boomed “Hey!”.

(Mind furiously matching names to faces, but failing terribly)
Me : Oh…. Hello!!!!! (Weakly smiling with no attempt to engage a handshake)

4th kind : How are you? So long never see you?

Me : Oh…. I’m fine. (Mentally and physically trying to expedite whatever I was doing)

Me : Ermm how about you? (Desperately wanting to finish up and go)

4th kind : Good… good. The usual...
(Eyes momentarily meeting with mine then goes back to looking into his urinal, seemingly concentrating on his business)

Me : Erm i’ll be going first. Have lessons. See ya around.
(Furiously zipping up and brisk walking to the sink and washing hands at a lighting speed)

4th kind : OK! Bye Bye! (Head turns and tilts towards me from his staring into his own urinal)

------ End Of (EUUE) Extremely Uncomfortable Urinal Encounter ------

Well, I’m sure all of us have had our fair share of encounters with the 4th kind be it in the toilets or in the lifts. At least for me, they never fail to make me extremely uncomfortable or in Chinese, (Bu4 Zi4 Zai4).

Just wondering how should I better learn to react to these scenarios hmmm……..
Comments? Hahahaha.

Da Neo
(Coughsy and less Flusy)

NB: After 5 hours, I finally recalled his name as “Ricky”. Hahaha. Here hoping he never ever reads this. :P

moo.
Daneo.

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