Have you ever noticed that some people don’t think things through very well? There’s a story about a professional football player who wasn’t very fond of team curfews when the team was playing on the road. So this player had a routine that he followed whenever his team was in another city. If he wanted to stay out after curfew, he would take whatever he could find loose in his hotel room and cram it under his bed cover so it would appear that he was in his room.

However in one motel there was very little in his room that would fit under his bed cover. The only thing he could find that was the right size was a lamp. So he stuffed the lamp under his bed cover and headed out for an evening’s misadventure. The only problem was that an assistant coach who came by to do a bed check turned on th…