Archive for January 13th, 2010
Technology can – and will – bite you in the ass.
This morning, as I was leaving my office’s unisex single bathroom, an attractive female co-worker went in right after me. Catastrophically, the woman closed the bathroom door right before I realized I had left my Blackberry in there. Please, don’t even judge: show me a man who hasn’t netted a high-score on his Blackberry’s Brickbreaker game while sitting on the can, and I’ll show you a liar.
That said, using a cell phone while in the loo is, of course, like so many things, an embarrassing habit that the fairer sex needn’t know about. But in my case, I had no choice. I had to recover my BB, and the only way to do that was to wait patiently outside the bathroom – like a naughty, detention-bound pupil waiting outside the principal’s office – until the woman re-emerged. Sure enough, she did, with my blackberry in hand.
“Looking for this?” she wryly asked.
I quickly weighed the pros and cons of lying: do I fib and sheepishly explain that the device had fallen out of my trousers? Or do I admit that I had indeed been using my BB on the can, and hope that she might be impressed that I straight-up CRUSHED my previous Brickbreaker high score (10,600 points)?
I opted for the former and went on my way, resolving in the future to walk further down the hall and use the men-only bathroom. What would you have done??
