Shameless Rip-off
I heard this story on TV the other day, and I had to share it, since it made me laugh so hard. I came up with the moral.
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I went on an out-of-town business trip with my co-worker, Bob, who also happens to be one of my best friends. We come back to the hotel room we were sharing, and since Bob is a big baseball fan and wanted to catch the end of the game on TV, I took a shower first. Bob went in for his shower a little bit after me, having watched the end of the game, and I was flipping through the channels when I hear this blood curdling scream from the bathroom, followed by a loud thump. Worried, I run to the bathroom door and pound on it, asking if he was alright. I hear groaning inside, Bob saying that he was alright, that I shouldn't come in. After asking repeatedly if he was ok, I come back to bed, still worried about Bob. 10 or 15 minutes later, Bob steps out of the bathroom, his face as white as a ghost and a cold sweat running down all over him. He falls face first into the bed, still groaning, not answering me when asked what had happened. After much goading, he told me, finally.
He grabbed the soap while taking a shower, and being these tiny hotel soaps, he dropped it. When he bent down to pick it up, the spigot, which was a thin-old fashioned copper fixture, had hit his ass, and went in a little. Hence the screaming. And of course, I laughed my ass off, when I heard that.
The moral of this story? Beware of strange spigots in strange bathrooms.