Monday, March 23, 2009

It's Okay To Read Porn At Work, Right?

I once had a coworker who was very, very strange. It's hard to sum him up in writing -- he was one of those people you really just had to experience in person -- but suffice to say he had led a very sheltered life before entering our profession, which requires you to be at least kind of competent when it comes to talking to people. It did not go well. He was awkward, long-winded and excruciatingly weird.

One day this coworker had a large binder open on his desk, holding it upright so his face was shielded. There was something fishy about the way he was turning the pages, and eventually I realized there was another book hiding behind the binder. 

Because I had nothing better to do, I decided to make it my mission for the day to figure out exactly what he was reading at his desk, and why it had to be kept secret. Eventually the binder slipped and I got my answer.

Letters to Penthouse.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow. I look downright saintly for sometimes sneaking my Entertainment Weekly onto my desk.

shelleycoughlin said...

See, that's why you should stick to computer porn. No one is going to question someone staring at the computer screen!

Anonymous said...

That is awesome. Just awesome.