I was standing in front of the hospital dispensary (processing Emily’s discharge)… behind me, were droves of people waiting to collect their medicines.
Was talking to one of the nurse inside, when suddenly, I felt an itch. Well, not just simply any itch, but, sort of, an embarassing one - an itch at the posterior department. It’s not on my arse cheek, else I would have scratched it off without sweat. But it’s right in the deeper region of my buttcrack, almost near the anus. Oooofff…
The urge of shoving my hands in to scratch that spot was almost unbearable, but I’ll have to restrain myself from doing so… as it would be too ludicrous to scratch my buttcrack in front of like …50 people.
I was left with no choice but to finish up whatever I’m doing pronto, and get the hell out to somewhere private to surreptitiously rectify that itch.
So, back to that nurse, was planning to let her (if not, ‘guide’ her) finish up her whatever verbal prescription a.s.a.p, grab the medicine and bail. But the nurse I’m talking to, didn’t just gave verbal prescriptions … but the type who would go the extra mile to impress people by acting proactively benign like that.
Like
“Oh, you’re her husband. That’s very nice of you..bla bla bla” - wasted 10 seconds. Itchy itchy.
“I wonder if she has taken her medicine this morning..hmmm…” [picks up phone and intercom the ward nurse to find out] - wasted a whole goddamn minute. ITCHHHHHHHHHHHYYY.
“You know, I talk to plants when I’m free and sometimes, I even talk to my own bladder and other patients’ clinical waste” - I made this up.
But you get the idea. Everything she did seemed to be so wrong. My itch has escalated to the level where I felt as if my ass has been raided by a thousand mosquitoes or something. I could not register any instructions from the nurse and there were cold sweat trickling down from my temple. All I could ever think was to scratch, scratch and scratch.
She wanted to explain further, but I stopped her by asking
“Well then, is it all stated on the medicine label ? If yes, then that should be fine”.
But then, I underestimated that hag. Whatever her evil plan was, she was sure very obstinate in her course. It was a whole 5 minutes or so before she conclude her tirade of inanity (trust me, everything’s inane when your buttcrack is goddamn itchy like that).
Right after she gave me the medicine, I skedaddled to the nearby restroom. But on the way there, I saw an elevator’s door opening with nobody inside. Since I was suppose to meet up with Emily upstairs and the elevator’s empty, I figured, oh what the heck, I can actually scratch my ass since there’s nobody inside. So, I rushed into the elevator car instead.
As I was frantically pressing the “CLOSE” button (which always fail to work when we wanted an elevator door to close fast), a young couple suddenly caught on to the closing door and boarded the elevator.
My heart went “ARRGGGGHHHH !”… but externally, I was trying to hide my complications. The couple even held the door open and was discussing whether they wanted to wait for another of their members… but later, decided to go ahead up. They got out on the first floor and I was left alone, finally. Nothing could describe my euphoria at that moment… no less for the gratification of scratching a brewing itch inside my butt’s cleft…
I found my nirvana inside an elevator that day.
*that was a mysterious itch. Not an insect bite, not anything. It came, just like that… which I’m pretty sure everyone has encountered before. I think scientists should stop excavating fossils, and use the funding to research about mysterious itch instead…