Sunday, February 1, 2009

A Surprise in the DVD Player

My company gradually upgraded its non-essential technology. Over the years, we got TVs in the conference rooms, moved from VCRs to DVD players and added other nice touches to make us seem like a real company. Every time we got a new piece of "common" tech, I begged the powers that be to have a mandatory training session, figuring it would save me a lot of time and agony, but they always refused.

One very lovely morning had me paged to the conference room to help a group work the semi-new DVD player. When I got there, I was told they weren't sure what was wrong, but that they knew it wasn't the obvious...dead batteries in the remote, since they had replaced them before calling me. Figuring it was an issue with the player itself, I opened the cabinet, plugged it in and asked for the disc as it was powering up. Disc in hand, I pressed eject and as I was preparing to drop in the DVD with the presentation video, I noticed there was something already inside...a copy of "Young Wet Bitches 46" (not 100% sure on the title, but it was definitely an adult film). I had no idea what to do with the contraband, so I just left it on the shelf next to the player, figuring whoever it belonged to would eventually reclaim his skin flick. Got them set up and went back to work as they were hunkering down to watch their video. When I sat down and tried to start working again, I was distracted by three important but strange questions:

1. To whom did this porno belong?
2. Which chairs in the conference room can I never, ever sit in again?
3. Why part 46? What was so good about this one that my distinguished colleague chose it over any of the first 45 volumes in this undoubtedly epic series. I mean the Godfather only got 3 parts, Star Wars got 6...Young Wet Bitches must be quite the masterpiece if it's on part 46 (and counting).