Saturday, March 6, 2010

A Susu Story

Just as the landscape began to get boring I realized a hot feeling in my gut. Unfortunately it wasn’t love... I needed to pee. On a bus that wasn’t going to stop in about next 3 hrs...how I was going to hold up, I wondered.

To calm my worries and doubts came flooding the memories of group elocution practices in school which had taught me more than recitation of poems…bladder control. The key was to focus on something else so intensely that you forgot how badly you needed to pee. The obvious distraction I chose for myself was music. I put on my headphones and tuned to radio stations of the city on my cell phone (iv always been a Radiohead)..after listening and switching between three stations on the radio for about 30 minutes I had discovered some things I had never thought of before, if you want to pee desperately but can’t then…1)Do not listen to very slow music 2)do not listen to songs which have lyrics about the rain or to music resembling the sound of dripping water 3)dance numbers are best(as one can imagine themselves to dance in their mind thus helping the situation)

Things were just seeming to get better when a glorious orange sun set in the sky leaving the air cold and foggy. As the temperature dropped I felt the situation get worse in my bladder. The damn Charles’s law was ruling me ‘temperature is inversely proportional to pressure’, I recalled. Thankfully the bus started going a little faster (may be the driver needed to pee too). I truly empathized with my friend Guri who had left the exam hall earlier in one semester exam than the finish time as she needed to go to the restroom, that day I had laughed today I guess the Gods were mocking me. Later Ma called me to ask me if I had reached, I talked to her for a minute thanking her for the distraction and telling her how badly I wanted to jump out of the window of the bus and pee, she laughed and that made me laugh and believe me you shouldn’t laugh if you’re trying to hold up, so I said bye and I quickly hung up. I started to concentrate outside the window, started to focus and read every sign board I saw until I came across a patch of newly finished buildings with to let sign boards which my mind read as toilet and reminding me how desperately I needed to go to the bathroom.

half an hour still to go the worst happened the lady sitting next to me started drinking water ,God knows how badly I wished I was one of those cute babies in the ads wearing a super absorbent huggies diaper… but none the less I did survive it and in the end come out dry only with a mild pain in my stomach.
I reached home and after letting myself in..i headed to the most fantastic place to me at that time…the bathroom and I swear to you to…to pee, had never been…so divine.

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