This past weekend, I was one of almost 2,000 UNC students to participate in Dance Marathon, a fundraiser for the UNC Children’s Hospital where participants dance (stand) for 24 straight hours.
Quick summary: it was an incredibly exhausting yet amazing experience. I collapsed once, cried twice, and would do it again next year if I could.
There are many things that stand out when I think of the weekend but one thing stands taller than the rest…
…the bathroom lines.
Or lack of them.
One beautiful thing about being a guy is that we are incredibly efficient at using the bathroom.
So, for the first 12 hours of the marathon, I thoroughly enjoyed walking past the long line of girls waiting to go to the bathroom humming (just loud enought to be overheard) the Beyoncé song, If I were a boy.
I got a few dirty looks but not quite as many as I expected and I couldn’t figure out why.
Then, 16 hours into it, feet tired, legs cramping, I realized one of the beautiful things about being a girl when you have to stand for 24 hours…
Girls get to sit down when they go to the bathroom.
That’s when I realized that half the girls probably didn’t even have to go to the bathroom, they just wanted a break from all the standing.
My suspicions were confirmed when I confronted a friend of mine…
Pomer: “You just need a break don’t you.” Bathroom Girl: (smiling slyly) “Maybe…” Pomer: “That’s crap!”(Bathroom girl turns and walks away humming Beyoncé’s Survivor…)
I guess sometimes things aren’t always what they seem.
(Girls – 1, Boys – 0)
February 27th, 2009 at 10:04 am
God, girls are smart. (I also just wanted to be your first comment).
March 2nd, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Hahahaha that’s such a hilarious story! You’re so right, guys and girls just have the quirkiest differences. It’s kind of like how guys are so simple, I mean we can pretty much just live life, you know? Girls are really complicated they are always worried and thinking about boys and relationships. I think jokes about how simple guys are compared to girls are really funny.