Gerry and the ‘goo’ (shit), on the toilet cover
It was one of my regular operating session days, in the operating theater ‘B’ at the NHSL, Colombo. OTB had two operating suits. I used one side. Our batch mate Gerry Jayasekara used the other side. I arrived at about 7.45 am one morning, at the surgeons changing room, to see that Gerry was already there. He took me straight away to the toilet entrance and showed me the plastic cover on the top of the commode saying, ‘Machan see what they have done’. The commode had its black plastic top cover down and on the top of this plastic cover was a well formed spiral of brownish- yellow ‘goo’ in Sinhalese, or shit as it is called in English. My mind went racing and I thought that a member of the minor staff working in the theater must have done it. I was about to call the Sister in charge of the theater to show her this. Gerry restrained me. He put his hand on the ‘goo’, folded it and put it in a black bag which he had in his other hand. Only then did it dawn on me, that Gerry had fooled me with a coil of ‘imitation shit’ made out of plastic. It looked so real. I burst out laughing. Gerry had picked this piece of item, from one of his foreign trips, and had thought fit to ‘pull quite a few legs’ that day.
