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March 22, 2009
Why not take a vacation day?
Vasectomy, originally uploaded by Kris Fulgham.
Okay, so Dayton got smacked up in the NCAA tournament today by the Jayhawks of Kansas. Oh well. My job was to save us seats at Finley Dunnes, so I arrived there at 10:30 am for the 1:30 pm start. I got to read the whole newspaper.
Here's a disturbing fact I learned:
[T]here are some guys out there who actually were excused from work and ordered to stay on the couch with a cooler nearby.
Who are these lucky guys?
They are the clever ones, the men who put some thought into when they scheduled that not-often-discussed elective surgery, the "snip-snip." The vasectomy.
The NCAA tournament's first round, which features 32 games in two days, makes for great drama, great television and office pools. It also makes for a great time — perhaps the best of the year — to be sterilized. It's March soreness, baby.
And more guys are realizing it.
"I'm booked up," said Dr. J. Stephen Jones, chairman of regional urology at the Cleveland Clinic's Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute.
Wowsers. I suppose that if a man is dead-set on getting himself a vasectomy, there's a certain poetic justice to getting it scheduled on the day where it would be great to sit on a couch all day.
At the same time, I could see some schlub who decides to get himself a vasectomy so that he can watch the tournament. If there is such a guy, I hope he picks the right year to do it. I get the feeling that the "I can't come to work today boss, I'm getting a vasectomy" excuse works only once. In that way, it is much like the "my great aunt" died excuse. Use it once, and make it a good one, because your boss isn't going to get fooled twice.
Also, after reading this article, I will never look at a bag of frozen peas the same way again.
entry no. 1332
Posted at March 22, 2009 08:33 PM