Peter Sagal: I’ll try to keep posting about my experience at Grinnell to a minimum until it’s over — as Ram Dass advised us, be here now — but the “Do Not Disturb” hanger at the college hotel is a small work of genius

I’ll try to keep posting about my experience at Grinnell to a minimum until it’s over — as Ram Dass advised us, be here now — but the “Do Not Disturb” hanger at the college hotel is a small work of genius

That said, I wonder how many of the current students get it

In related news, guess who forgot to pack a necktie?

Your head is now an impromptu doorknob

If this isn’t a bit, it’s still a good bit.

It’s not a bit! I had a moment of panic, checked to see when the stores opened, and then… realized I had a tie right there

And now it's a bit

Wait wait not now!

A colleague of mine forgot to pack pants to take to a poetry reading. Ran to a store to buy some. Put them on, gave his reading. At the end, the MC walked up to him, said, "Sorry, but I can't resist," and pulled off his pantsleg one of those long adhesive things with waist and length printed on it.

If: Not Now? When? You are a genius. 😄

I predict a new fashion trend.

Pretend it’s swag for a Wait Wait spinoff

Not NOW, Peter.

Fortunately, they had one just like the ones you have at home.

This makes my day!

We had the Red Sock.

We just put an X on the dry erase board on the door

I don’t get it! And I’m not anywhere close to a current student.

I've never lived in a dorm but from novels I've gleaned that a necktie/bowtie (classier, apparently the symbolism appears in some non-university hotels) or a sock (purely a university/young person roommate thing, I guess) on a door handle indicates that the occupant is, um. Busy. You know.

Makes perfect sense!

Yep! Once you know! But it's just opaque enough to cause scenes straight out of a farce, so hopefully the youth of today have figured out something better 😂

An app?

The last campus hotel I stayed at had a double-sided hanger that said Studying and “Studying”. With the quotes.

That's pretty good.

I want those wood security hangers for the kids. Break away instead of bend!

Clever

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