The Call of Nature

By Maimoona Ejaz 



A tiring day in class, a boring lecture, a self-praising teacher; combine them all and you get the usual university day! Every student has been through this regardless of his age, gender, country of residence or grade. Its days like this when you wish you could run back home, take a break or a nap in class, or, if conditions get real bad, you may even want to BUNK.  These are some of the instantaneous solutions that might come in a normal student’s brain. Doing so, however, can get them in a lot of trouble. They need a place where they can be free, Utopia, a safe haven, going to which won’t even be a problem-The washroom!

This is a fact throughout the world; no teacher can deny their student from going to the washroom. Students these days misuse this “weakness” of teachers. Going to the washroom is a mere excuse to get out of class these days. Students tend to take “the long way” from and back to the classroom so that they can escape more time of their lecture.

Some students, however, think differently. They wish not to miss even a fraction of a second of their class as even an atom’s bit of information may come in the examination. They go to the washroom just to respond to the call of nature and try to do it as fast as they can.

The worse part of the day for both types of afore mentioned students: An engaged washroom! What will the ultimate nerd of the class and the backbencher do now? Neither can the studious kid go back to his class until he accomplishes his “mission”; nor can the non-serious one find a good place to spend his time without being in danger. The even worse part for both of these types of students- they have to be with each other, unwillingly, in the same place, for the same purpose: waiting for one of the occupied ones to become vacant. The intellectual and the non-serious of the class are most likely to despise each other. What could be worse for them than being together? The uninterested type may answer this one themselves. As for the serious type, they may end up crying by something that most would consider a plain practical joke; being locked INSIDE the washroom!