Ok, so this is what the author wrote after mentioning that he was in the men's restoom ...
I unzipped my bag and grasped the folder tightly with both hands. Ratiocinating over the possibilities that the contents of the papers might hold, my hand hesitantly brushed the grime off of the cover. Why I had thought it looked like an interesting object worthy enough to be stolen out of the world famous Professor’s laboratory is still a mystery to me today. But hey, one man’s trash…
You have to have a pretty dirty mind to get anything out of this, but it was the first thing to come to my mind.