For those of you who don't know, I moonlight as an Resident Adviser at my university. It's a great job, although there are a few frustrations that go along with it.
One thing I do is try to provide contraception for the floor. I keep a little baggie of condoms on a bulletin board outside my door, and try to keep it full. It's nice, because people on my floor get to have sex, and when I hear the rustling of the bag, I know someone on the floor is getting lucky. And that makes me happy (or jealous. Sigh). Recently, despite my best efforts, I can't seem to keep the bag full. I have a sneaking suspicion that people have been taking condoms unnecessarily, so I sent my floor this email. Because I haven't been posting recently, I thought I'd share this, because I thought it was funny.
Subject: Condomanners
Hey Floor,
A quick note on proper condom etiquette.
Firstly, yes, it is the gentleman's responsibility to provide the condom. Not bringing the condom is a lot like not buying your high school prom date the corsage. You just won't get laid if that's the case.
However, it is not my job to ensure that you can get laid in any situation whatsoever. When is it appropriate go grab a condom from the bag? Take this quick quiz and see how you do!
1) You are going to the chicken and rice guy on 115th street. Perhaps you will see a really cute girl in front of you, hit on her, and buy her a kebab. Oh yeah. You know what kind of kebab she wants.
2) You are going out to Campo. Everyone's chances at Campo are pretty much golden, right?
3) You have just been surprise booty called by Gisele Bundchen. She is in town, because the Patriots are is playing division rivals the Jets, and seeing as Tom hasn't really been meeting her standards recently, she needs a little extra lovin' from you.
4) You are going on a month-long journey to Amsterdam. Holla(nd)!
5) Things went really well at 1020. In fact, there will probably be a happy ending in your room. Sorry, roomie!
6) Your significant other is your roommate. Pass the condom bag every day, several times a day.
7) That supply of yours ran out (pound it). But hey, you're getting lucky tonight.
So, what were your answers? They should have been 3, 5 and 7. Those are all really good reasons to drop by the condom bag and grab one or two. If you chose 1,2,4, or 6 however, you were mistaken.
You see, I get condoms from Health Services in massive quantities, and use that supply to keep our floor supplied. As much as I like it when the people in health services stare at me and think that I'm some sort of legend when I grab condoms by the boatload, it's sort of inconvenient to go there every other week. If you really go through condoms faster than Wile E Coyote goes through Acme catalogs, then you should drop by health services yourself for the free condoms. They're the exact same, I swear. The fact that I have touched them won't make them any better, nor will it increase your chances. So spread the word. Pass this email along to any of those jerks from other floors that I've seen stealing the condoms, too.
Sincerely,
Your RA.
Anyway, let me know if you'd like to hear more about my RA exploits. As soon as I get a bit more time in my schedule, I'll be posting more regularly. Hope all is well!
I like where you're going with this, but I think you need to be more threatening. What will happen if they don't comply with your requests? Threaten them that their flavor choices will be reduced to only banana if they don't start rationing the condoms.
ReplyDeleteFirst and foremost, a RA needs to instill fear in their subjects.
Andrew,
ReplyDeleteThis is a brilliant idea. I hesitated to reply earlier because I didn't think I could add to it. Unfortunately, health services doesn't provide banana flavored condoms. However, it turns out that colored condoms, particularly red ones, are the very unpleasant for everyone involved. Those are to be the new punishment.