It is a bit creepy …
Oct 9th by JonThat’s what my friend Chris texted when he went to the bathroom at the Catalyst Conference yesterday. His full quote was actually, “It is a bit creepy to see you looking surprised while I use the bathroom.”
He wrote that because much to my surprise, above every toilet and urinal in the Catalyst Conference yesterday morning was my photo and a blurb about what I said during the Off the Blogs lab with Los Whittaker and Anne Jackson.
I know what you’re thinking, are you going to get a big head now that you’re all ”toilet famous?” Are you going to get all cocky, now that you’ve got “Urinal Street Cred?” Good questions, good questions.
Today, I thought it might be fun to continue a tradition that started last year at Catalyst with the photo of my miserable failure of a meet and greet. Let’s play “Caption this photo.”
Let me set it up for you. You walk up to a urinal or go into a stall and whoa, there’s a weird looking picture of a guy with a unibrow and a quizzical expression.
What should it say?
Caption this photo: (Or maybe caption what you would have thought if you saw someone snapping a photo while at a wall of urinals? Or maybe rewrite the headline of this ad from “Something you might have missed …” to something entirely different. Like the Black Sheep said, the choice is yours.)
Comments
Honestly, I don't really WANT you staring so intently that you can catch something I've missed…
One day all the little boys will aspire to be as toilet famous as you are! Me? I'm a girl and well, I especially do not want you to notice something I've missed.
So, what exactly are the people who made these toilet adverts going for? And I'd be interested to know just what sort of clientèle they are hoping to draw in. Are these toilets in respectable locations? They aren't in any dodgy toilets somewhere are they? Not entirely sure I'm okay with these, the more I think about it… Do you really want people buying your book in the toilet? I mean, some people don't even wash their hands when they go toilet!!! (This is going to be a topic for another day, this NEEDS addressing)
It is all very disturbing to me…
This is like…poking fun at Milli Vanilli type easy….just too easy…I can't bring myself to caption this…
please keep your arms and legs in the stall
Ever feel like you're being watched? You are! Jesus: He follows you on and off the internet…
are you laughing with me or at me?
Did you use "cocky" and "urinal" in the same sentence? Yes, you did. On a holy, Christian blog no less. Is that like the inverse (or is it converse?) of the booty-God-booty phenomena? Can you start tracking and posting God-booty-God moments too? Seems like GBG is at least as common as BGB.
God knows where you're "going".
"I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you!…right?"
We have to stop meeting like this
The day I got performance anxiety while having two men stare at me while trying to use the bathroom!
-The Poor Husband. http://www.lifewithrachael.blogspot.com
"I'm sure glad I ALWAYS bring my camera into the bathroom. I just never know what interesting things will be there. I'll just use one hand to snap the picture and the other hand to take care of business. Wait! What's this? I can text to win a Free Mac?!? Hand number two now in use. So, I wonder how long I can stand here taking a picture with one hand and texting with the other before someone tells me it's time to move on?"
-The Poor Husband. http://www.lifewithrachael.blogspot.com
"no matter how much you shake and dance… Jon and Dave know where thelast few drops go…"
It should say, "seriously, guys should wash their hands too."
This is what you get when you come in second for the Noble Peace Prize.
Stop laughing at my chin dimple
What is more creepy is when someone exaggerates about what is in the bathroom. I heard someone telling another someone that carlos head was in the bathroom and it was really creepy. What is weird about this is it is a lie, carlos was not in the girls bathroom and never did not have a huge head cut out or poster.
That is weird if you are making stuff up about that.
For some reason I feel like you are going to do a scl post about this as well.
"When church marketing goes to far"
Yes, this was a mistake…
Ready, aim, go for gold!!
"carefully position camera went taking photos in front of reflective materials in restrooms"
My first (and possibly only) thought if i were to walk in and find someone snapping a picture above the urinal would be, "Oops! WRONG bathroom!"
It's a bit creepy is EXACTLY what I thought. Then I looked down, thinking there'd be a "Booty-God-Booty" sticker inside the urinal.
"Something you might have missed…you're fly is still up. Thankfully, Dave Ramsey has a program for people like you too!"