Wednesday, September 19, 2007

A pre-teen's perspective on a scandal

Yesterday, I was talking to someone who has a twelve year old son. We were discussing his youngster's perspective on the news, and somehow the Larry Craig bathroom solicitation scandal came up.

It dawned on me that if I had heard, as a twelve year old, that you could be arrested (or, alternatively, picked up for gay sex) for tapping your feet on the floor of a bathroom stall... I guarantee that my feet would have been freaking glued to the tile whenever I had to drop a deuce in public.

In fact, even as a 27 year old, my feet will probably be completely stationary when I sit on the throne, in the wake of this scandal. Sometimes you can't be too careful.

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