rather improbably, yes, look you see, this is as the title suggests. not so very long after seeing (or bearing witness to) an abandoned comb on what limited travels i am presently permitted to take, so it is that one more caught my eye. well, that i noticed it might be a better way of painting a (vulgar) picture of what actually happened.
there are some differences between this tale of the discarded and the previous one. well, so there should be, otherwise there would be little point in me recording the matter. yes, true, i hear what you sand and indeed maybe there is, overall, so very little point to many of the things i deem as needed to record here, but you are the one reading it.
assuming you continue to read, we shall explore the differences as we go. but, so as to avoid any conclusion reached or accusation made of me withholding matters for some simplistic variation of dramatic effect, such as producing an overlong and needlessly wordy sentence, it was a different type of comb and was observed in a different area to the previous.
whilst the more avid readers of this blog will need no such clarification, yes, this is a black comb i saw abandoned. somewhat famously, it was a white one in the previous such instance. or similar instance, for no two experiences can ever truly said to be the same.
it was in quite a different area that i saw this comb, but please note (members of the constabulary in particular) that it was in a place which could be deemed as perfectly reasonable to have travelled to under the current control conditions we have in place for all this plague business. but, despite the impressive (accidental) play on words in the title, no, this was not in Morecambe, which is like really, really totes far away and a place i have not really ever had much of an interest in going to.
so where was it? i would prefer not to be specific, or if you like i am going to go right ahead and decline to clarify. this was all whilst in a queue for some "essential" shopping, of course, but in a part of the world generally regarded as less affluent than where the white comb was spotted. for a clue, if you insist, it probably has the highest ratio of chemists per capita of any place in the world, which includes at least two branches of Boots. and the population is not so big.
once it was so that i asked questions of this rather striking per capita ratio. it was of an ostensible resident of the place. my abiding memory of their response was of it being that they got quite upset with the line of inqury. perhaps this was due to them living a rather sheltered, if not fragmented, life, very rarely venturing from the place. continuing with such, i have little doubt that for the purposes of their psychological comfort zone remaining as a constant they simply took as a given that everywhere has such a high demand for chemists and so the number is not unusual.
yet this was countered, or questioned, maybe even dismissed by someone who had overheard the question. although such was noted for normally refraining from being in any way willingly involved in all forms of discourse, they felt compelled to interject. to this end, the unleashed quite the diatribe, describing the reason as being as simple as requirement, as in their estimation (or possibly experience) the population of this place were dirty, vermin infested, disease riddled types in need of any and all medical solace they could lay their poisonous hands on.
no. of my quite limited experiences of the deeper nuances and mechanics of the place, i would not say that this is a conclusion which i would have reached by any natural means. and nor does it shed much in the way of the light of knowledge as to why here the black comb would be preferred, either for conventional use or to discard, over the white. maybe it is a natural expression of the intrinsic border which has formed between the two.
and so right, well, that would be it for this. yes, certainly, should i see any further combs abandoned i will duly report on them here, but no i am not off actively seeking such, honest.
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