Sometimes I find that someone has left a gift behind door number two - sometimes it's the sports pages. As I flipped through the box scores, basketball player indictments, and (shudder) NASCAR highlights this morning; I realized that whenever I've found a portion of the newspaper in a bathroom stall, it has always been the sports pages. Even when I've been lucky enough to find an entire paper ... it's turned to the sports pages. If I go to my favorite Mexican restaurant and excuse myself to men's room for a quick stand-up .... when I look up at the wall, what do I see? Sports Pages!!!
I see a few possibilities that might explain this trend:
1. All the men that frequent the same restrooms I do are sports fans.
2. Only men that are Sports Fans bother with actually buying a paper in today's world of technology.
3. "News" from the Sports Pages can be quickly read when making a pit stop (notice the NASCAR-ism).
4. "News" from the Sports Pages are important/mundane enough to warrant long times of contemplation.
5. Some men are so ashamed of their sports obsession that they feel the need to pursue it in secrecy.
6. Some men are so happy with their obsession that they leave the sports pages like a Gideon Bible in a hotel room.
7. Men that read the paper in the restroom want other men to think they are manly; so they leave the sports pages.
8. No one actually reads the Sports Pages and men are just pulling them out of the paper to leave them behind door #2 with the rest of their little "gifts".
8 comments:
Did I leave my newspaper in stall #2? I was wondering where it went.
My votes are for possibilities 3 and 6.
Funny!
Before I read this, I just saw the sports page in stall #2.
My questions is who reads the sports page after it is left? How comfortable are you with your co-workers -are they at the family level yet?
I don't touch it!
At my old office, this guy would grab the sports page right outside the bathroom where the daily paper usually sits on a table for people to leaf through. He would take it into the bathroom and then he would return it on the table. Maybe it is common courtesy to leave it in the stall, because you know where it has been and you can make the judgement call.
ew!
It its the Arts section than watch out for that little drill hole at waste level
I don't know why but I've been humming The Battle Hymn of the Republic ever since I read your comment Dar....
;-)
I have never found a newspaper in the women's restroom. My theory is that men take longer "doing their business" than women do. That is why they need reading material.
I agree with Golden...girls don't have reading material in the restroom....
But we do take our cell phones in the restroom! The other day there were 2 of the 3 stalls talking on their phones...and one girl at the sink! No, I didn't have mine! :-)
Hmm, now I have another reason to never use someone else's cell phone.
no doubt. yuk!
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