“He looks lost,” a male engineer commented aloud as all of us were heads down.

“Yeah, what’s he looking for?” a second engineer piped up.

I looked up and saw a man walking frantically in small circles in front of the ground floor office windows. His head was shaved and he wore a light brown vest over a t-shirt. From afar, I could tell that he was Asian. He bobbed to and fro as if he was not sure which direction to go.

“A monk!” a third engineer observed a few seconds later.

I knitted my brow and quipped, “Just because he’s Asian.”

Beat.

“Well isn’t the guy with long drapey orange robes a monk?”

And there was. Right beyond the lost-looking man was a shorter man with a cleanly shaved head who calmly walked across the street when the light turned green. The man with the light brown vest followed behind with a nervous gait and I mean the man who is not a monk.