Thursday, July 26, 2007

a funny thing happened on the way to the bathroom

i don't know why I suddenly thought about this incident, which happened more than 10 years ago ... i was staying with my 2 absent-minded, un married but easy-going uncles in an apartment ... one of them was in his 50's, his name was chottay chachu, a 6'4" comic who had the knack for finding something laughable in the most boring or even desperate situation ... the other one was in his 60's, baray chachu a short and fat 5'6" gramps type who loved to tell funny stories and drink rice wine until he was dead-drunk and peed in his pants ... i was stuck with these two unles for two months in that apartment, helping them do their paper work, and going out to do the marketing and cooking for them. But I never got bored, because it was lots of fun watching them discuss their work, always punctuated with funny anecdotes and boisterous laughter ... they were a bit like an intellectual mandarin version of laurel and hardy ... so anyways ... one night, actually it was around 2 a.m., baray chachu wakes, feels his tummy curdle, and shuffles to the bathroom half-awake. He forgets to lock the door, doesn't turn on the light, sits on the toilet bowl, relieves himself in the dark, and falls fast asleep right there.About 10 minutes later, chottay chachu gets up because he has to pee, goes to the same bathroom, also half-asleep, doesn't turn on the light, and proceeds to douse the sleeping gramps with a torrent of warm piss ... baray chachu wakes up startled, doesn't realize what's happening, shouts, gropes and flails with his hands in the dark, and instinctively seizes the "snake" that's hosing him ... chottay chachu also wakes up, alarmed at the hands that seized his "snake", and grapples for control ... im roused from sleep by the commotion, grab a sidearm I keep under my pillow, and rush to where the noises are coming from ... the bathroom light is already on, the tiled floor is wet with pee, and the two clowns are alternately laughing and shouting obscenities at each other for what happened ... when I hear the rest of the story, I laugh with them, shake my head in disbelief, tell them to go clean up their own mess, and go back to my bed, still chuckling ... these are the poignant bittersweet incidents in my life that suddenly pop up in my head when i'm alone, smiling to myself when i dun feel sleepy at night, instead of countin sheep ... =P

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