An Observation

Upon picking up a local news paper, I noticed that the advertisements for escorts and phone sex lines were on the back of the crossword puzzle. I can't help wondering if this was completely intentional, imagining an overweight, single man, on his way to his awful job, doing a crossword puzzle on the bus, seeing the occasional outline of a topless woman burst through the hints on the side of the page. And as he fills in each box with ease, repressing the thoughts of his meaningless existence, he realizes that the answer to number "40 down", the name of the deputy from The Dukes of Hazard, which he remembers instantly, has just covered the midsection of a woman that looks like his first girlfriend. He gets off the bus and walks to his office building. Half way through his lunch break that he spends alone in his cubicle, he finds that he has begun dialing the number for the phone hotline advert that he covered up with the name "Enos Strate".