Remember when I blogged about my “Business Class” pillow in the previous entry?
Haih … really sad story. In the past two days, this is what my Business Class pillow has become.
It’s black cover is put for wash and the memory foam that it is on the inside, I’m not sure if it’ll ever be the same again since I don’t think I’m really supposed to wash this but I didn’t have a choice.
Here’s what happened.
I checked out of my hotel in Hong Kong yesterday morning. I had another meeting to attend in the afternoon and I didn’t want to lug my luggage around so I left it in the Concierge. All except my backpack and my Business Class pillow because I normally just sling my business class around my backpack. Then I took a cab to Mong Kok for a quick shop before my meeting because my Dad asked me to go look for a digital camera for him. When I got out of the cab, I felt around at my backpack and noticed my Business Class was missing.
So I frantically looked around the street and found it lying there. Now here’s the joke. The street was dry. Why shouldn’t it be right? I don’t remember it raining at all in the past few days. There was one part of it that had a puddle… I don’t know how it got there but there was a puddle. And guess what… my cab happened to stop right outside that puddle and my Business Class just happened to drop ON THAT FLIPPING PUDDLE!!!
One side of it was entire soaked when that happened. I picked it up, pat some wet sand off it, cursed some profanities quietly to myself and then just carried on walking. I was upset… but not as upset as what happened next.
Two hours later I had just finished my lunch meeting. Picked up my backpack and my already dirty Business Class and was about to leave the restaurant. But I didn’t…. because I decided to go to the toilet before I leave (my backpack and business class still on me). I went into the tiny toilet, did my small business then went on to wash my hands. After I washed my hands I realized that my Business Class was not hanging on my backpack anymore. I looked around on it and found it on the toilet floor.
Now here’s the thing… the toilet floor is dirty… but what is the DIRTIEST PART OF THE TOILET FLOOR?
The part right below the urinal. Why dirty? Because some guys miscue when they pee and drips of piss drop on right below. That glorious part of the toilet floor happened to be EXACTLY where I dropped my Business Class. I DROPPED MY BUSINESS CLASS ON URINE!
I panicked. I picked it up, tried to wash it as much as I could but decided I had to do it later when I had more time. When I did much later in the afternoon I smelled my Business Class and it smelled like urine. FUCK! So that’s why I decided to wash it to Kingdom come… even if it means the pillow’s now probably destroyed.
*Sigh* So that everyone is what happened to my Business Class.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space