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Sunday, June 24, 2007
The Toilet
Be it in school, at the workplace, or even the toilet at a block in a military camp, i have come to realise that toilets are the most conducive place for gossip. Queues are rarely seen in the male toilet, so how can it be a conducive place for people to gather together for quite a period of time to gossip? For the female toilet, i have seen queues too often, so the time to gossip to fill the time gap is inevitable. How about guys? Dont we just do our business and get the fuck out of there almost within 60 seconds? Well, ladies, you see, especially in an army camp, we guys have to queue to use the toilet to shower. For those specialists/officers who may be reading this, you guys may not understand how we men have to queue up to shower. But we do. In any case, there's the queue and it explains the possibility of talking to fill the time gap while we wait for our turn. Other than just queuing up to shower, we guys can gossip in the toilet in another odd situation. You see, the toilet cubicles are, well let's say for 99.9% of the toilets i have seen, next to each other. We can, if we want or when situations permit, pass the toilet paper by any means possible if we ran out of them. Remember that pod advertisement many years back when this guy sms-ed another guy and the next scene showed the former passing toilet paper to the latter by a bottom space between 2 cubicles? Yeah, what i was saying meant something like that. Okay, i'm digressing terribly here. Talking about the toilet cubicles, what i wanted to point out here is that you need quite a bit of time to shit. So when friends happen to go shit together, and when they shit next to one another, there is the time to chat, or maybe gossip. (now i know why girls like to go to the toilet in a group... leading to a human traffic jam, like the CTE...) So, after beating about so many bushes, what am i trying to say here? Let me put this as an advice, or maybe a warning to all, that although the toilet is the most conducive place for gossip, i must say it is the worst place to do that. Note that i use worst, and not worse or bad or lousy or terrible... Well, why that? Okay, visualise this. For the guys, if you happen to be queuing up to shower, you gossip. But are you able to know, or be conscious if your target/victim of the gossip may be in the toilet? Do you know if that person may be sitting on one of the toilet bowls at one of the cubicles? Or he could just be showering in one of the shower cubicle behind those curtains? And for everyone who may find him/herself in situation 2, that you talk/gossip to your shit buddy, your target/victim may just be shitting with you guys? Or just finishing his/her business? Or maybe just stepping into the toilet? Therefore, i urge everyone, that the line "The walls are listening!" cannot be doubted. Well, not that i am putting this up as one of my entry because i have ran into such a problem before when i gossip in the toilet. As i said earlier, it is just a realisation. Like an enlightenment. Okay, enough of bullshit. But i must say that my bullshit holds some truth.
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