The Unorthodox Commandments

“Please stand in line over there, sir.”

“Tickets, please.”

“Please hold while we connect your call.”

“Could you hold the door?”

“Can you give me a few more minutes?”

These are all common, mostly innocuous and innocent commands I and any of us have received many times in life. They are ordinary and mundane. Sometimes annoying, but nothing to write home about.

But today, a new marching order was given that not even the most fastidious, 5-star World War II Purple Heart general could anticipate:

“Please lift your testicles up and put them on the towel.”

There’s always a first for everything.

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