I wish I could claim illiteracy

[claracter]

I just walked into a public men's restroom. And a professor saw me. I am a dunce.

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but you could be blind

[zeroschism]

Just act like you are blind. And you are not a dunce.

Re: but you could be blind

[claracter]

Aha! Brilliant, Adam: there's my excuse. My myopia is so severe that, legally, I am blind. And I'm elated that you do not think me a dunce.

[gollymollie]

I do that from time to time. Actually I did it on Sunday, but luckily no one was in the bathroom.

[claracter]

I can easily imagine us wandering about in a public place, happily lolly-gagging and becoming thoroughly absorbed in various absurdities as we usually do. (I'd be engorging some sort of chocolate, and so would be already a bit giddy.) Laughter would burst out of us as involuntarily as ejaculation, and we'd casually stumble into a bathroom, only to realize too late that it was the wrong one. We'd look at each other with infinite commiseration and hilarity, guffaw some more, then stumble out as unapologetically as drunkards. Soon we would run into a casual acquaintance, attempt to relate to them the utter grandeur of the preceding moments, yet produce nothing but expressions of befuddlement and vague repulsion.

It would be magnificent.

[gollymollie]

That it would be.