Yeah, I know that’s supposed to be LA & not NY but hey, I’m not in LA. And why is it that I always feel compelled to explain my titles?
Getting back to the whole confidential thing - so sitting on my desktop is this PDF file that’s titled “Confidential Application.” Now, with me being who I am (as in really, really curious and nosy) and it is, after all, on my computer, naturally I had to take a look at this file. (Hey, it’s not like it was printed and filed out. I did know it would be blank. I’m not that bad.)
The application is something that seminarians apparently need to fill out every so often. They don’t want any psychopathic killers ending up as priests so they have all sorts of psychological type questions on there. As I was reading some of it, I did wonder what’s to stop someone from lying when they fill it out but that’s another line of thought altogether. What I found amusing were the relationship questions on there.
“Hey, Steve, you better hide this thing from me after you fill it out because you know I’m dying to see what you’d answer to some of these questions.”
The boy laughs. “Which ones?” I suspect he knew exactly which ones. They were the ones relating to his relationship with me but I pretended that he didn’t know and told him.
Being the smart ass he is, he says, “Anything relating to you, I’d put 2 words in: what mother?” Naturally I couldn’t let him get away with saying that. I think I threw something at him. It may have been a tissue box.
We then got into this whole discussion about curiosity and how Frank & I are complete opposites. If Steve had that questionnaire filled out and left it in plain sight, Frank wouldn’t look at it. I would. I said something like, “If you don’t want me looking at something, then don’t leave it out where I can see it.” We were briefly wondering whether or not Frank is completely devoid of curiosity but it turns out he does have some. Just not as much as I do.
Just to make something clear, I am not completely bad. I wouldn’t go ransacking people’s bedrooms looking through their stuff. I wouldn’t go out of my way looking for something that is private. But hey, you leave it right out in the open, well I’m sorry but I do not have the willpower to resist taking a peek.
