Have you ever encountered a situation at the supermarket checkout where the cashier and shopper yakked non-stop - one's slow at scanning the items and the other takes ages to pack? I did today.
On a good day, I can be patient enough to wait. However, if I'm in a hurry, I will fidget and become irritable. Well, I wasn't exactly in a hurry today but was in desperate need for the toilet. When I went into the supermarket this afternoon after work to grab a few things to make for a dinner party tomorrow, I didn't feel that I needed to go to the loo. But when I was about to pay, there's this sudden urge of high tide, not a gradual buildup. It must be the cup of tea and bottle of water I'd consumed after work. I thought I could quickly make my payment but I chose the wrong till. What happened to be the shortest queue turned out to be the longest wait! The two women were more interested in talking than doing what they had to do. I felt the dam was going to burst. It was a horrible feeling. The more they yakked, the more I felt like shouting at them to hurry up. But me being me, I just kept quiet and tried not to grimace. I swore if I'd left my stuff on the till and make a dash for the toilet, I would come back and still find them talking. I envisaged the worst case scenario - a grown-up standing in her puddle of pee. How embarrassing can that be? It only happens to a child.
I held my bladder with all my might. Sheer torture! Finally the shopper left but not before just standing there holding on to her darn debit card and carried on yakking away and not putting it into the machine (at which point there's a silent scream in my head 'pay up you B***h'). Hallelluia! I'd never packed and paid up so quickly in my entire life. I didn't even care if my bags of shopping would be stolen (highly unlikely) and just left the trolley outside the toilet. I was never this happy at the sight of the loo.
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This made me laugh out loud! I can imagine what it must have been like. It happened to me once REAL bad.
I seldom drink water, and thought I would be healthy on a trip and drank lots of water. And then we got stuck in a carpark jam on the San Francisco Highway 1. When I finally got off the highway, we left the car by the roadside and I dashed into the first building, a bank. I gave them the most serious look ever - "I'm sorry. I have to use your bathroom, NOW." If they had said no, I would have peed right there in their banking hall.
You really have a great deal of patience there. I wish I can be like that too.
Normally, when that happens to me, I'll ask the cashier how long would this take. If he/she decided to be nasty in her response, I'll speak to the supervisor. I simply CANNOT tolerate such inconsiderate action at the expense of my time.. :P
Bing: You too? I don't know if it's worse holding the bladder or bowels. But I sure experienced them both.
Chip-pea: Me not guts. That's why just kept quiet.
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