It must be Lock Yourself in the Bathroom and Cry Month and nobody told me.
When Saffy wants some privacy she squeezes herself into the nearest available handbag.
Barely a week after the last episode of bathroom drama, it happened again.
I was in the bathroom at the mall when I heard someone weeping in one of the cubicles. At first it was sniffles and sobs, then it became full-on wailing and keening. I could make out the words “Ayoko nang mabuhay” (I don’t want to live) between sobs.
So I asked the washroom attendant who was in there. She said it was a student, and she had been in there for a bit.
I never know what to do when people get emotional in public—half of me wants to say, “Pull yourself together for chrissakes” and the other half wants to find the nearest exit. My friends have pointed out that in these matters I am a guy, although the way guys cry openly these days I must be an alpha guy. Sure you can cry at the movies and at sporting events, but if your girlfriend/boyfriend has dumped you, not a single tear.
Plus I’m stupid at human relations and everything I know about that I learned from the movies. And according to Moral by Marilou Diaz-Abaya, troubled college students have miscarriages in public toilets. So I asked the bathroom attendant whether we should knock on the cubicle and ask the crying girl if she was all right.
No, leave her alone, said another lady in the bathroom. Let her cry it all out, she’ll feel better. When I left the wailing had not abated.
Maybe she flunked an exam, my friend speculated. Or got ditched by her boyfriend, or found out that she’s pregnant.
Maybe it’s just life in general.
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September 11th, 2010 at 07:00
If I was there, I’d just make her cry louder, aggravate her more, just for the devilish fun of it. I’d bang the cubicle door with both palms, shout “HOOOOYYYY!!!,” and then run out of the bathroom while screaming “ANDAMI MONG DRAMA, SYETTT!!!”
I figured she’ll be too shocked to do something about it.
AHAHAHA, that will be fun.
September 11th, 2010 at 07:01
But I will have to be in the Ladies Washroom to make that happen. Tough luck.
September 11th, 2010 at 09:33
or maybe she didn’t win the litwit challenge…naku, lagot!
September 12th, 2010 at 00:10
Great timing. It would be my nature to write something snarky but it probably would not have been that implausible for me to have done kinda the same thing; just a little more subtle than wailing, though. LOL. Just a month ago, I was already caught by my boss hiding in a room at the office crying my eyes out, and he just sort of laughed off.
Break-ups are hard, and some are a lot harder than others. And it’s too easy to belittle them when they happen to other people because it’s too damn cliche…until you experience it yourself. More than anything else, it’s the sudden evaporation of dreams and the stark finality and irreversibility of it that strikes you at the core. It’s also the second-guessing and the what-ifs that gnaws at you. What if I hadn’t packed up and stormed out of the apartment that night? What if we had tried to fix it and it could have been even more wonderful than before? Haaay sayang!!!
I wish you weren’t so fuckin cute and great in bed (and other places) and an ex-Mormon and didn’t have 2 cute puppies (including a sweet pit bull named Nena and a shiba inu named Tiko that sheds hair all over the place) and nice (when you’re not being a paranoid, jealous nutcase) and kind and generous (when you’re not being selfish) and so talented and smart (when you’re not being irrational) and sweet and sexy and…Damn you, Skyler!!! I hope you cry harder next time it happens to you.
September 12th, 2010 at 08:08
Maybe she heard the rumor that a former child star suffered (?) a vaginal lock, “trapping” her popular actor-boyfriend, and now she’s scared, really really scared, of doing “it.” And she has already made plans for a perfect weekend!
Oh, the poor girl. ^_^
September 12th, 2010 at 19:58
something similar happened to me at TESCO…
Sat down in a toilet & a voice came from the next cubicle “Hello mate, how u doin?”I thought it a bit strange, but didn’t wanna be rude, so I said “Not too bad thanks”.Then I heard the voice again. “So, wat r u up to?”I answered reluctantly “Just having a quick shit…how about you?”Then I heard him say……”Sorry mate, I’ll have to call u back, I’ve got some twat in the next cubicle answering everything I say!”…..hahaha buti sana kung nasa glory hole..
September 12th, 2010 at 20:51
“Vaginal lock” is funny. AHAHA, really Jediknight, thanks for the phrase, I think I have employment for something that golden!