The Conversation ***

I was nearly bursting. The first cubicle was taken, so I went into the second one. Slammed the bolt and sat down when I hear a voice from the next cubicle...........

“Hi there, how is it going?”

A bit taken aback, I stayed quiet for a while. I am not the type to strike up conversations with strangers. Especially strangers I cannot see. Strangers talking through toilet cubicle partitions. In any case, I didn't know what to say.

Then, the voice again, “Are you there ? Can you hear me?”

So finally I say: “Yes. I’m ok ............”

Then the voice says: “So, what are you doing?”

I am starting to find this a bit weird. What did he think I was doing? But I say: “Well, I'm going back to KL ...............”

Then I hear the person, all flustered, say: “Look, I'll call you back … every time I ask you a question this idiot in the next cubicle keeps answering me.”

(adapted from unknown author)