Secrets

© Ayr/Gray

The Unicorn Challenge.

A magical new weekly writing opportunity from him – C. E. Ayr – and me.
The rules are
Maximum of 250 words.
Based on photo prompt.
That’s it.

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Secrets

‘Morning Giddy.’
‘Morning, Mrs T. You well?’
‘Oh, you know… D’you want the usual?’
‘Yes indeed. I’ll be back in a minute. Just popping to the…’
He winks as he passes through the cafe.
She knows that Giddy, a lawyer whose full name is Cyril Alphonsus Gideon, won’t be back in what most people call a minute.
His trip to the gender neutral toilets – ‘cubicles only’ and ‘cubicles and urinals’, or, as they used to be called, Ladies and Gents – usually takes some time.
And is the reason for Mrs T’s concession to political correctness, for which she doesn’t otherwise see the necessity, because, before the cafe was upgraded and expanded, there was only one toilet which was, obviously, gender neutral.
This concession is to allow Giddy free access to what would previously have been the Ladies.
Now Giddy doesn’t have gender issues – and even if he did, that wouldn’t be a problem for one such as Mrs T.
No, Giddy uses ‘cubicles only’ because he has been entrusted with Mrs T’s special key to cubicle 3 – (permanently locked) – which is where she keeps her safe…

Eventually he wanders back into the cafe, happily humming ‘The Winner Takes It All’ and Mrs T serves him his single shot americano and croissant.
Secure in his confirmation that her ‘other business’ is thriving, she smiles benevolently at the only person privy – sorry! – to this operation, Cyril Alphonsus Gideon, the secret love child of Mrs T and the late Cyril Alphonsus Gideon Snr.