Hand Me Down Porn

Funny story.  Last year, the family was gathered at grandpa's house for his wake. Yes, I know that's not the best way to follow "funny story," but bear with me.

Grandpa had a significant collection of old Playboy magazines from the 80's and 90's.  I thought it would be a shame for them to leave the family, since I'm sure that all four grandsons (and you know who you are) had at one time or other, well, we...  We looked at the naked women.  There, I said it. 

My 16 year-old nephew Ryan was there and so I grabbed a few of them and gave them to Ryan, who looked puzzled for just a split second, then mumbled "thank you" and put them in his bag.  Yes, I realize I was giving the boy pornography, but it was Playboy.  There is more nudity in an Abercrombie & Fitch ad.  And the magazines were 20-30 years old.  So, if he perused the centerfold of "Bo Derek at 40!" he would actually be viewing a naked septegenarian. 

I forgot about the whole thing until a few weeks ago when Stacy and his family were in town.  They usually stay at Stacy's friend Roger's house.  Roger told the story of how he and his girlfriend were recently cleaning out the guest bedroom.  She pointed to a drawer in the dresser and asked if she should clean it out.  Roger told her that there was nothing in it.  She asked "What, is that where you keep your Playboys?" And then she opened the drawer and found three Playboys. 

I believe her question was something like "What the hell are these?" And his response was "I...uh...they aren't...what?"

Things might have ended badly for Roger if it hadn't been for the handwritten note inserted into the centerfold of the top magazine.  It read:

Roger,
My uncle gave me these.  I didn't think it would be best idea for a 16-year-old to be found with these by the TSA going through airport security so I'm leaving them with you.
Ryan

The kid is brilliant.  He's likely right about airport security, he left them in a place he could access them again (absent the cleaning project), and he left Roger a get-out-of-porn-trouble-free note.

And the most brilliant part?  I actually gave him seven magazines.