It's been a long time since I had such a laugh! Fridays are never boring if it all ended like that. So I was loitering in the office until six thirty hoping for something interesting to happen, but the department pretty much emptied out by six and only a few collegues were left. It rained slightly an hour ago so I was pretty confident of not getting caught out by the weather on the way back. Not feeling up to having dinner alone, I coerced a collegue, Kar Mei into following me to KFC for dinner. A bit of geography here. KFC is a mere 200m away from my office, just next to Ampang Park McDonalds.
Anyway we left office at about 6.30 and was half way through dinner when dark clouds gathered quickly. Within 10 minutes it was pouring with a vengeance and we were stuck in KFC! Imagine the horror when we realised that we didn't have umbrellas! Kar Mei was in heels and a white shirt so that ruled out making any sort of dash through the rain back to office. Anyhow the rain was much too heavy to walk in, umbrella or no umbrella in hand. I was gleefully cackling away by our pathetic predicament while Kar Mei was cursing the powers-that-be. Undaunted, we decided to sprint to Ampang Park and see what to do from there.
Kar Mei had to be back at office so we had to find a way to get back, by hook or by crook. Once we arrived at Ampang Park I noticed people walking out of Guardian with umbrellas and duly suggested that instead of being drenched (and no doubt in her case, transparent), we might as well try to get as much shade as possible under those tinyineffectiveandunpractical Guardian umbrellas. Kar Mei got a small pale blue one to fit her petite frame but they ran out of bigger sizes and I had to settle for (Shock! Horror!) a PURPLE AND PINK MICKEY MOUSE umbrella, which was ironically the biggest one in store!
Armed with some miniscule form of protection against the torrents lashing down from the sky, we proceeded to wade, hop and run for Plaza OSK. Now I'll leave this up to your imagination. Try to picture a guy with a purple and pink Mickey Mouse umbrella and a girl with another pale blue one making a frantic dash through heavy rain past Maybank, Bangkok Conexxion bar and the Royal China Hotel to get back to Plaza OSK all the while desperately trying to avoid huge puddles and to stay as dry as possible. It was truly hilarious and we both broke down into fits of laughter when we finally reached the office. Normally this wasn't something you would want to do on a regular basis but it was really, really funny while it lasted and we both made it back with our feet drenched but otherwise just slightly wet. In Kar Mei's case it was a wonder that she didn't even slip while making a run for it. She's so small I swear the rainwater will be able to wash her away together.
And the punchline to all this? The rain stopped 20 minutes after we managed to get back to office. I left for home while Kar Mei was still sitting in her cubicle drying her feet. We could have just as easily weathered the storm in KFC and got back to OSK without having to go through all that hassle and me carrying that ridiculous umbrella. Still it was pretty good fun and altogether memorable experience. Whoever said working life was boring?~Zhongy~
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