(Sometimes even the slightest anomaly can be the funniest thing on a mundane day)

This Friday morning I went to work as usual, entering the office building lift with that bored-neutral-sleepy look like everybody else.

Three of my colleagues were also in the lift. I stood at the back of the lift with the 2 female colleagues. Our new male colleague stood at the front near the door, so obviously we had nothing to stare at but his back.

Suddenly I noticed a huge fly perched on his back, clinging on to his shirt. My eyes popped open while I pointed out to Alice, the colleague standing right behind him.

“Khm-khm-khm” she stifled her laugh while I still stared in surprise with mouth shaped in an ‘O’.

“Oh, my pet fly,” I whispered to her, my finger put against my shoulder to support an imaginary fly.

“KHM-KHM-KHM” she chuckled louder and added “Fifi”

This time I chuckled, “KHM-KHM-KHM” and added “Fufu … Fufu didn’t follow today”

“KHM-KHM-KHM, KHM-KHM-KHM” we both chuckled. By this time, the poor guy already felt self-conscious and realised that we were both talking about him. He glanced back but I think he wasn’t very sure what was going on.

I could see him fidgeting … khm-khm-khm.

We work on the second highest floor of the tower so there was plenty of time for the fly to enjoy the ‘ride’.

The lift door opened and we both expected the fly to fly away, but Nooo… the fly loved this guy so much. It started to climb higher up his back towards his neck! EWWWW!

Two of us looked at each other in shock and surprise, and started laughing out loud. The fly didn’t leave his back at all.

Poor guy … we must have made him soooo uncomfortable!