20) Breaking the peaceful monotony…

Sometimes there are some little things here that are absolutely hilarious… to me anyways. While enjoying myself at the baths today, a middle age man decides to break the peaceful monotony of no obnoxious noises, by making some obnoxious sounds.
In order to understand where I am trying to go with this, perhaps some history and info about me is needed at this point.

When I was in high school my closest friend, Willy, and I would do a lot of stupid stuff that we thought was funny. Looking back on it, a lot of it was experiments to see how people would react, and how far we could push things with people still thinking we were serious. Keeping a strait face was the name of the game in these things, and we were good (Will better than I- he could keep a strait and serious face no matter what). One of the things Will was best at was pushing the limits of where and when he could be naked. We would go to a health club by our house, and he would do everything he could naked, like brush his teeth, weigh himself, or just stand in front of the mirror and watch the people behind him. This is actually quite normal to see and do in the bath houses here, but in the health club we went to, it was very much out of the ordinary, as most everyone would quickly change in the corner, and be covered as fast as possible. You would occasionally get the old man who wouldn’t wear a swimsuit in the hot tub, but that was about it. Will was also a master at making regular things, such as a sneeze or cough completely obnoxious, and he could place it at a perfectly inappropriate time (any readers who know Willy know exactly what I mean- I hope).

So while I was at the baths today, and this guy starts making these weird, very loud grunting sounds (not an attempt to clear his throat, but just vocalizations), all the comedy of my past with Will comes up in my mind, and I just started laughing. This wasn’t the first time I heard this kind of thing, it is actually fairly common, and I usually laugh to myself, or break a smile. But today, just thinking about how much fun Will would have in this bath house (by himself, or with a friend) just put me over the edge, and I couldn’t stop laughing. The weird thing is, no one else in the entire bathhouse even turns their head- and it was loud enough that every person, and probably even those in the locker room could hear. But some of the stuff that I see and hear here, particularly in the bathhouses are some of the same things Willy and I did for comedic purposes back home. I think that I may need to start running some experiments here, just for old time sake, and to catch some reactions.