Bettina is here today???

Long after the poetry left my life (defeat in poetry competitions sometimes leads to discouragement to write at all...), after India left my life, i thot y not share a funny incident at Germany. Wonder what can be the difference between "Bettina is HERE today???" and "today BETTINA is here???"

Well...Bettina is the administrative incharge of institute where im having my intern. A nice simple lady describing whom would take me a few more posts though.. Apart from her, the office has this Irani guy named Hamed, a really funny guy, not only by his words and actions, but also by the look at his face when he hits the pool balls hard and says "AGGRESSION....HABIBI!!!!" ohh....by the way, habibi means dear friend :)

The other day there was a lull at our institute, everyone so busy with their work that no one even knows if the other person is in Lab or not. Then comes our lunch time when the whole office goes to the canteen to grap hot food like a big happy family... But before we leave, there's the trend of attending the call of nature among the office people...

And like any other place in the world, at Max Plank Institute too we have a Gents (Herren) toilet and a Ladies (Damen) toilet. Wonder why im mentioning it??? yeah... Hamed arrives from his office walking down the corridor to pay a visit to the washwroom before the lunch, and as he opens the door, he shouts (like he always is at a higher scale of volume) "Bettina is here today???"

I wonder what he meant by "here"... was it "the office", as i said it was too quite to know if the other person is around... or did he actually see something inside the Damen washroom when he opened the door??? ohh....Damen = ladies

And the next sound we all hear is "OOOOhhhhh Shitttt..." as Hamed slams the door realizing that he opened the ladis toilet's door instead of a gents' one (if he intended to at all) and quickly runs to the Herren WC (Gents toilet)

Moments later Hamed is back from his job and repeats again (i didnt say SHOUTS again) "Bettina is here today???" NOW it seems he wants to know if she has come to office or not... assuming he didn't see ANYthing in there, i giggle and tell him at a lower tone "She was in the toilet when u opened the door" , and then after the pause of a moment or so, "Didn't u see her???"