Drama

The content of my story tonight will sound like those episodes which only happen in dramas. The precise timing when it happened was also very drama.

I was leaving the office and was just stepping out from the lift onto ground floor when my handphone rang, showing "private number". Geezzz... could be anyone, I really hesitated and was thinking aloud.

"Private number?" when I mumbled that to myself, I thought my boss shot me an inquiring look.

Okay, answered and regretted. It was handphone guy! So "drama" begun, like this:

ttb: oh... hi. (trying hard not to be distracted by my boss)
handphone guy: hei, where are you ah?
ttb: at the office! (trying hard not to sound lame)

(My boss, who came down with me and still walking just beside me, did not even bother to hide his amazed look, obviously heard what I said)

h.g: uh? so late ah? Thought you finish work at 5.30pm?
ttb: Oh, arr... I've got a lot of work to do today...

(voice trailing out because when I exchanged glance with my boss upon saying that, he was already chuckling. He was definitely very amused and pleased having to be there at such "good" timing)

h.g: Oh... I'm at TC having my hair cut...
ttb: yeah...
h.g: work late also must have dinner right?
ttb: DINNER!!!???

(whoopss... shouldn't have repeated that word.)

ttb: I'll eat when I got home lo...

(I was shaking my head madly. But my boss was obviously quite entertained by my "tactful" way of declining the invitation).

I missed my lift to the carpark, my boss was pointing to the vacant lift BUT I cannot get into the lift now! How can me supposedly working in the office suddenly loosing reception because I was going into the lift. So we were both at the lift landing till the end of my tele-conversation, which happened to end then.

h.g: oklah then, I'll................. (I didn't even hear what he said, boss was so distracting).
ttb: ok, byeeeee...

To end my drama, my boss asked: "why don't you want to go, what's wrong with him?"

Geeezzz... you have NO idea.