"The Only Thing That Separates Us From the Animals is Our Ability to Accessorize."

A 25-year old professional & part-time grad student rants, raves, and revels
about the impact of the iPhone on the lives of single people in the city.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

The Dangers of Putting Naughty Photos on Your Phone

My roommate and coworker facilitates many trainings for employees. Often, after the training, attendees come up to her to chat about things and show pictures of children, just because they think she's cool (which she is, btw).

So, one particular day, she was training a particularly attractive gentleman who wanted to show her a picture of his dog on his phone (this gentleman does not have an iPhone). Well, as usually happens, in passing the picture of his cute pup around, the backlit screen went dark.

So, when the phone ended up in my roommate's hands, she exclaimed, "Oh, the screen went dark!" at which point she just pressed a random button.

But she pressed the navigate button. That button that scrolls to the next photo. And it elicited an immediate reaction from this gentleman.

"NOOOOO..." he reached in seemingly slow motion to avoid the inevitable. Because, you see, my roommate had already seen this guy's penis. Yup, that picture you take of yourself to send to an illicit lover and vow to delete,but somehow forget to delete.

This, of course, has become the stuff of training legend at our workplace. I couldn't help but wonder how many other people have had their naughty photos accidentally exposed.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

This is a great story and it has made me wonder. Did the trainer assume that the penis in the picture belonged to the attractive gentleman, did he make a confession, was there some kind of clue in the picture that made the identification of the penis owner undoubtable? This could mean that there is an unstated iphone ettiquette like - any pictures of genitalia on your iphone will be assumed to belong to you.
Which leads me to this thought - maybe the attractive gentleman wanted the trainer to see the picture - maybe this is a new kind of pick up manoeuvre?
Anyway, I enjoyed the story, thanks

Eddie Radshaw said...

Ha ha ha. It may have been a come on if the gentleman wasn't gay, Bev!

It's a great pickup move though-- especially since, according to reports, it was a nice penis.

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