well, yes. there is little point, look you see, in seeking to shock or upset you. let me get some things out, so to speak. this post will have a high, but probably not explicit, sexual nature to it. if this is the sort of thing, that sort of thing, which troubles or upsets you, then it may well be prudent for you to depart this corner of the internet.
my travels - both through life and around this world - invariably mean that i get to see quite a bit. some of it is interesting. them bits what are of the most interest tend, of course, to end up on here in one capacity or another.
something which i never considered was that i might be one of the things that others on similar travels may observe. whether they viewed me as a point of interest or something banal to forget is, of course, not my place to discuss. the notion entire came to mind when i saw this sign of late.
quite a few people get quite upset about just how many cameras seem to be set up to record us, the simple people of the world, as we go on with our business and try to get on with it all. in truth i have never really noticed or paid attention to such; but signs like this do bring it to stark attention.
the area i was in - we shall get to this in more detail later, or shall if you stick with it - caused the sign to be of more interest than it perhaps normally would. whilst i am no expert on what does and what does not warrant or otherwise constitute a good idea to monitor, nothing of where i happened to be said "keep a close eye on this area, just in case".
and so i went on, around, up and down to have a closer look. perhaps my initial reason for being there had been to focused, and i had missed something or other. indeed i had.
yes, indeed it is. that's a discarded prophylactic, or if you like contraceptive sheath, or if you will condom, or should you prefer rubber johnny. i do believe i shall stick with the latter phrase for this post, as it has the most interest sound of the lot of them. undoubtedly this might be due to the apparent lack of the letter "c" in the name, but that's just speculation.
seeing a callously, casually discarded rubber johnny in this day and age is hardly all that strange, i suppose. maybe this is sad, maybe it is not. such items have been widely available for sale from many places since the late 80s, due to them being one of the most effective (outside of no nookie) protective measures one could take against HIV infection. to this end, it would have been the counter at Our Price or a Virgin Megastore or maybe even HMV where i first purchased a packet, "for a laugh" of course.
one abandoned rubber johnny, and no i am not going to go into whether or not they were soiled or used, i most certainly did not take a close enough look, would probably not make an interesting post. several, however, is a different story. this is that different story.
well, there's two of them for you, in reasonably close proximity to each other i suppose. the mind boggles, if only a little bit.
it's like, how did the above happen? were they both discarded by the same amorous couple, who used one, took a few steps and felt inclined to crack open another? should that be it, well, applause for the stamina, or the use of them special pills what you can get in Spennymoor and similar places. or was this the, for want of a better term, work of two couple, or two gentlemen and one lady or another gentleman, as part of all that "dogging" stuff i hear of but never get invited to?
again, i agree with you. for some seeing two discarded rubber johnnies might be curious, but not interesting enough to, say, do a blog post with pictures. well, as it happens, yes, there were more.
under no circumstances am i sure that one should have a "favourite" in terms of all of this. if i am wrong and it is ok to, then the above is probably it. what's interesting about this one is the discarded can of "energy drink" next to it. perhaps, harking back to the picture before, these discarded rubber johnnies really were the work of just one romantically inclined couple. maybe they used one, took a few steps, felt the urge to use another, took several more steps and went for the hat trick.
assuming this all took space in a relatively short space of time - no one had cleaned all this up, after all - there can be little surprise that the chap elected to deck or down some sort of energy drink beforehand, or for style at the same time. only David Lee Roth, after all, would have the stamina, resources and abilities to do such with no assistance whatsoever.
the most surprising aspect of the above is that there is not a discarded can of Axe or Lynx deodorant there, or anywhere near. as my studies into Axe / Lynx over the years have shown, the intention of the spray is to act as a quasi magnet for feral teenagers to be drawn together so as they may engage in such things. but still, a nice touch that the above was so close to a drain. it is almost as if the users of this particular rubber johnny were contemplating an ad hoc disposal move. or user, maybe. perhaps it is a solo lover who just likes to explore his love for himself frequently; and indeed outside.
just where in the world was i when i saw this quite remarkable proliferation of discarded rubber johnnies? am, alas, bound by certain confidentiality matters so cannot disclose. for those really curious, the above picture, selfie style of course, should provide enough information for you to work it all out.
it would be fair to say that it was an area that i did not expect to see such, though. oh, i mean, sure, everyone from all walks of life "does it", true. but the area i was in did not suggest it was one where such was carried out in ostensible car parking lots, recorded by CCTV. this was a posh, affluent and well to do area, flanked by luxury apartments, offices and such. also, lavish yachts were moored by a prestige dock on a river which is the envy of several desert based communities around the world.
more? yes, of course i saw more of them discarded, otherwise i would not be troubling you with all of this. there were many, many of them, dear reader. no, i did not picture them all, but yes here are some more.
i would have thought it fairly obvious that the appeal for me in the above was the equally discarded cigarette. having a smoke whilst "on the job", so to speak, sounds tricky, possibly dangerous and perhaps quite impressive to, as it were, pull off.
maybe the area i was in was not quite so posh and that as i had assumed. another explanation, and we must face this, is that i had happened upon a "red light" district. one that turns the lights to that shade during an evening, i suspect, as there was no evidence of solicitation whilst i was there.
this country has some funny, peculiar laws regarding the type of commerce engaged in within "red light" areas. we, in fairness, have a peculiar relationship with thingie, such are our reserved ways and stiff upper lip and what have you. probably best not to discuss it too much further then, lest i cause unnecessary arousal.
yeah, that final picture is the "cigarette" discarded one again, with at least one more visible in the distance. no, i did not keep count and i lost track of how many abandoned, cast away rubber johnnies i saw in what was effectively quite a small area.
well, that's that, then. i would like to think that whoever it was using all of them - no matter their overall number - had a frightfully jolly good time doing so. but, yes, you are quite right, it would have been most splendid of them to tidy up once they had finished their business.
as for the CCTV people, well. one reads of those who have voyeuristic tendencies. and let me be clear, i throw no stones at those who are, what with me being a long term fan of Body Double. quite living the dream, i suppose, getting paid to watch live footage of people doing that sort of thing, unless they exclusively hire the more prudish members of our society to do it. but even then, you would think they'd be in their element, tut-tutting and shaking their heads in disgust at such filthy behaviour.
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