The Gizmo
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Few days ago, while I was looking for my 8 gigabytes flask disk, another gadget of mine, I stumbled upon an old gizmo I once had. My supervisor bought it for me when he went for Hongkong. This supervisor is already our OIC today and thinking how he did me that favor always makes me smile. To purchase me such a gadget would really require guts, or maybe he just loves me that much. Hehehe.
“What is your size by the way?” He asked me before his departure. “Six inches in length, five and a half inches in circumference.” I said. I already did the measurement because I am expecting that the sales person might ask this kind of information. “Really?” He asked for confirmation. “Yeah.” I replied in a very casual manner.
When the gadget arrived, I was very excited to open it. “Hey, wait until tonight. The packaging is quite embarrassing. You just don’t know how much I went through looking for that item.” He said. I thanked him. Well, I could even kiss him that time.
During that time, our office was like our home already. Both my supervisor and I are sleeping in the office because we were still working on our server room. I would be sleeping on the guest couch while he would sleep on a folding bed. Amusingly, my supervisor is a little bit sissy at night so he would sometimes place his bed next to the couch and he would always wake me up if he would go to the lavatory. It is funny to think that he could put himself in an embarrassing situation while at night he is just as lame as a duck.
He handed me the package after we ate our dinner. He was right about the packaging. Our officemates would surely raise their eyebrows if they saw the package. When I emptied it, I saw a clear cylinder with a thin chute at the tip where the pump should be attached. There were 3 silicone based rubbers in different sizes that served as gaskets. My supervisor checked the sizes out and asked me what would fit my size. I told him that the small one would never fit. I smiled at him. “Let me see.” He laughed hard at his own statement.
That same night, I used the gadget in my working station. My supervisor would check me out occasionally. He would even talk to me while I am using the gadget. I am not sure if he was glancing at what I am doing because he seemed to be looking at my eyes when we talked. I always wanted him to ask if he could look because I would really be glad to let him watch.
“Tell me if it really works.” He said. “Yeah and I would let you borrow this.” We give out a heartening laugh.
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I smiled holding at the gadget and my first experience with it. Unluckily, I was not able to maximize its use because I tore the silicone gaskets in just a couple of months, all the three sizes. It could have been effective if it lasted long because I could really see how my size increases while it is inside the cylinder. I could fill the entire circumference of the tube and there are only at most 4 cm. left of the entire length.
I put the old gadget back to where it is originally hidden. I could not just throw it away. There are many memories attached to it and I could always bring them back if I want to. Maybe I could even use it again. For the time being, where is my flask disk!

















