A social Commentary by Iowanian

[Iowanian]

forgive me bumping an old thread to share a moment too perfect to not share.


By poorly engineered design, by office bathroom shares a wall with the desk of the adjacent office secretary. I knew it was a bad arrangement during my first day's visit when I could hear her stapling papers.

Today, we're both loners in our respective suites.

Irony? Perfect Timing? Cosmic intervention? You be the judge.

As I take my seat for an emergency evacuation, as I make the necessary adjustments, as quietly as possible, I hear it. She's beginning to hum, then mumble and now breaking out in song. As I'm beginning to do work...it becomes clearer and clearer, louder and louder what she is singing.

pffffffft.
"nanana na...nanana nana hey hey hey....goooooooood byeeeeee"

pfft
"nanana na....nanana na na hey hey hey...gooooood bye"

It varies in tone....from her attempt at Barry White....to what must have been a boy band rendition...ending in an Operaesque crescendo......

It hit the lever for the final "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD BYE"....and it stops.

I think the reality of the irony of this moment has begun to sink in on both sides of the wall.