Details
Date of Publication 24 January 2017
Publisher Self-Published
Length of Read 6 minutes
Where to Read Medium
Synopsis
A man encounters a beautiful young woman on a flight.
Excerpt
Is she married?
That’s the first thing I thought of when I realised that her teeth were brown. As in brown, not a dot of white. And the brown gradated. From light to dark brown. It was like that photoshop gradation tool, you know? It reminded me of the new Instagram logo, the one that gently turned colour from a warm yellow to dark purple. But instead of diagonal left to right, her own was just top to bottom.
Hmm. Nah wah. So even this one found man to marry? There was a ring on her finger. On both marriage fingers self to make sure you knew that she was married. She came up to me.
“Good evening Sir.”
She stopped the refreshment cart and smiled at me with that her brown teeth, “Would you like anything to drink?”
“Yes,” I didn’t want anything, but I still went along, “Please can I have an uh, a coke please.”
I didn’t want coke either. I was just so thrown off by her nonchalant nature, how she was so comfortable with such an appearance. The flight attendant pulled my table down and placed the mini coke can with a cup and a serviette.
“Thank you.” I shouldn’t have smiled at her but it was automatic courtesy. She smiled back with that her teeth again. Kai. Someone’s mouth had never bothered me this much. Okay, I take that back. Bad breath trumps all.