Gunny Walker

  I remember one time when James and I were leaving the break room, we stopped by the restroom. It's was tradition to hit the john before you go back to work. (Yes, ladies sometimes we go together as well.) There were three stalls one of which was occupied. Well, when James walked up to the urinals he was not clearly choosing one or the other thereby hindering my choice. I said to him, "Come on man, left or right. You can't use both."
  He came back with, "I could if I were a possum."
  I said, "Ah yes, the mighty opossum."
  Then I thought, this guy next to me must think that we are strange. I mean we just made an inside joke about possums. I wondered how I could prevent that. Then it occurred to me. Be friendly. It seemed natural to me. Maybe if I said hello, then I wouldn't seem like such a stranger. After all, he was a fellow Wal-Mart employee just like me. I looked over and said, "Hey, how's it goin?"
  He mumbled out a fine and rushed out of the bathroom without washing his hand. After I left the bathroom, I turned to catch James bent over and laughing. Ken was walking by and asked what was so funny. James recanted the story and we still have a good laugh about it today.
  The lesson here is that it's not a good time to talk to complete strangers in the bathroom. Even though, I talked to a complete stranger at Rocky Horror without any ill effects. Except for the pondering afterwards that I probably shouldn't have done that at RHPS. And being creeped out later by realizing there wasn't a wall.