Om Shanti

These past few days have been really cold. And lately, I have also gotten so thirsty. The combination of drinking lots of water and the cold weather can result to some uneasiness. I have to get up every so often to go and pee.

In the restroom, I met one of my officemates who belongs to a different team, we’re not that close but we definitely say “hi” when we meet each other in the halls.

So, the second of the dozen times I’ve gone to the restroom, I bumped in to her.

Girl: Hi!

Me: Hello!

After washing our hands and checking ourselves in the mirror, I go dry my hands and she opens the door to leave.

Girl: See you!

Me: See you!

Then, after a glass of water I drank a little after lunch, I had to go back to the ladies. There she was again! As I stepped out of the cubicle, she was there and we looked at each other and smiled a Haha-it’s-you-again smile.

Around 4pm, again I had to go to the loo. As I got in the ladies, she was there and I went like, “So we have the same schedule? ” And she laughed a little. That was how we greeted each other.

1st Time: fine

2^nd Time: Amusing and still fine

3^rd Time: Awkward. It’s not like we will have to say hi again so I had to improvise because we both looked pretty stressed out from work.

4^th Time: Haha yes there was the 4^th time, and it went like this…

Once again, stepping out of our restroom cubicles at the same time, she had her shocked and amused face on. Without smiling and putting on a shocked face (again without smiling) I exclaimed, “Oh my gosh! Déjà vu!”

And she laughed, as if we had been friends for a long time already. It felt good.

Maybe the next time we bump into each other again, we’d actually have a real conversation.

I’ve had a lot to deal with this morning and I had to postpone going to the toilet to take a piss. It’s like 5 degrees here in my cube. This is despite the fact, that I, by the way, work in a country just a degree above the equator. That’s something for your geography class.

Anyway, I really need to piss. I wanna piss so I went off to our restroom. There was the “CAUTION: Wet Floor” sign right outside the ladies’ room. “Oh tihs”, that’s “oh shit” to you maam sir because I knew that every time this sign was out, I couldn’t use the restroom, so while I was making a 45 degree turn to go back to my desk. I suddenly saw this lady just leave the restroom and I thought “Oh goody!” as I walked hastily to the restroom door.

“Hello!!” said the auntie with her mop and a vicious look on her face as I entered the restroom. “Cleaning!”

“Agui…bya si auntie” I thought to myself. “I came in because I just saw a girl leave and I thought it was okay to come in.” (I mean, by golly auntie! It says “CAUTION: Wet Floor” for crying out loud! Not “Keep Out!”)à This part I only said with my face with much discomfort kay ka ihi-un lagi..

Having figured that there wasn’t much I could do, I walked away, my head down and my shoulders slumped. “Grrrr auntie!!! I wanna piss!!!! Piss you off!”

But she beat me to it

***NEXT***

You know what; I left the key to my office drawer at home today. I either left it or lost it. It’s a good thing the office keeps a spare key. I have my laptop in the drawer which makes it a hell big of a deal.

***AND ANOTHER ONE***

When I get to the office the very first thing I do is check my office mail. To my surprise, my password seemed to have expired. This happens every month in my previous company; the only difference is that it didn’t surprise me then. I tried to make a new password but then it stated that the authorization could not be done now. So, knowing that Fridays are usually the times when we get the most email, I decided to email my boss using my gmail account. Luckily, just before I started composing my email he came to my cube and I told him “I was going to send you an email to inform you that I might not be receiving any emails being sent to my office account.” He went like “What?” and he was about to laugh because I talked very fast. “What is it about the email?” he asked. I explained to him my predicament.

He said “Shanta everybody else today is having that problem. The server’s down and we’re having someone fix it right now.”

I was like “Oh tihs..” and smiled and said “I thought I was the only one who was having that problem.” I quickly spun my seat to face my desktop monitor and tried so hard to keep myself from slapping my forehead! I mean c’mon Shant, why didn’t you think of that? It’s the server!!!

I still wanna piss. Damn this puny gallbladder of mine.

In days when mornings start like this, I kind of want to think that the day can only get better. Things can’t get any worse than this and some cliché like that

Have a nice day!