This was third time, I was going to yawn. We have again missed the deadline and everyone in the meeting was dead silent. The only person who was speaking was her, the boss.
‘This is not acceptable at all’ she shouted. Where are we going wrong? Estimations? Productivity? Or laziness?’ she stared in my direction while speaking the last word. I was damn sure that she caught me yawning last two times. I was trying hard not to make it third time. Taking long breath, hardening my jaws, stretching my throat, everything possible to stop it, I was doing.
All this was effective, but only for few seconds and at last the next moment of time, my mouth again got opened. Despite of all efforts to stopping it, I was yawning, again. She started walking towards me, and before I can close my gateway, she was just in front of me. I stood up. Pin drop silence in the conference room.
Only thing I can hear was something buzzing in my ears, or may be in my mouth. My eyes went wider thinking of it. What is it? A mosquito? A fly? A bug? That too in my mouth.
‘Do you understand the importance and severity of this meet?’ She grunted on my face, with few tiny drops of saliva on my nose. I just shook my head avoiding my mouth to get open.
‘Do you want me to sing for you so you can sleep?’ she added.
‘No…’ came out of my mouth making a small gap between my lips and next sound which came out of my mouth was ‘hell..’
The poor tiny wet little creepy eight legged four fins single trunk fellow came out of my mouth and flew and sat straight to her nose. Her both the eye lenses took a walk from my mouth to the tip of her nose.
I can never ever forget the sound she made, ‘eeeewwwww…eeeeaaaa…eeewwww…’
Now except me and her all other people present in the room were trying their best to stop laughing.
Better I should have gulped it…I thought!!