On gratitude
By Helen Hui
I am pissing in a Starbucks toilet and remembered I am grateful and felt grateful that I could feel grateful and got even more grateful. I was initially grateful because when I asked for the bathroom code the barista did not ask whether I got a drink - which I did do, but the thought of awkwardly showing him my receipt or holding up the drink horrified me - and the bigger stall out of the two was open. Smooth trip to empty bowels, grateful.