A friend of mine who shall remain nameless (although most people like to call him Rob Forbes) keeps a large collection of magazines in the bathroom he reserves for the comfort of guests. An unkind visitor might make the observation that there are even more magazines than there are small, unused, sample size bars of scented soap in this particular guest bathroom. But I am not that kind of person.
I would, however, draw your attention to the fact that most of these magazines that Rob and his wife Sarah have collected are of such ancient vintage that one can easily believe that, at some point in their lives, these publications were idly perused by yawning Athenians in the great libraries of Antiquity. Indeed, I have heard it said that many modern day scholars lock themselves in Rob and Sarah's guest bathroom while researching articles on various arcane and historic subjects of interest to only the highest brows of academia.
What really puzzles me, though, is that Rob and Sarah - people with little interest in ethnography or archeology - have somehow managed to accumulate such a large number of National Geographic back numbers. I can only assume that after experiencing one of Sarah's powerful feats of Mexicano-inspired gastronomic artistry, this accommodating couple enjoy offering their guests a chance to retire and, while seated on that famous toilet, read about the real Montezuma while suffering his so-called "revenge".
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Guest bathroom!?! So you're the idiot who deposited that load in our library's National Geographic archive room. Last time we break nachos with you, Baldwin!
Posted by: Rob Forbes | June 14, 2004 at 18:37
Mind you, that's not as bad as that time Mr Outer Life visited and decided to have what he called "a quick dip" in the septic tank!
Posted by: sarah forbes | June 15, 2004 at 09:13