13 September 2012

The friendly city

I have experienced the dark, friendly underside of the Steel Village. In Sheffield, naked men talk to me in the changing rooms of my gym.

One mastermind asked me how to use the hairdryer. I suggested that the red button next to his finger would be a good place to start the investigation. He pressed the red button and, impressed at my expertise, used the hot gust to dry his disgusting feet. At least that whack-job could construct a full sentence. Another eagle-eyed not-right pointed at my foot and shouted “Primark socks!” as I put on a sock bought in Primark. And it just keeps happening. Yesterday, I had a remarkable exchange with a man who looked like both Ant and Dec.

Tell me if this is weird.”
Yes,” I replied. “Yes. It is weird.” We were both nude and it was definitely weird.
I haven't said anything yet.”
You've said enough. I'm drying my thighs with a very small towel. It's weird.”
Not that. Is it weird that I want to fuck my step-sister?”

I gave him an old-fashioned look.

Er, possibly, but it's somehow still less weird than starting a personal conversation with a naked stranger.” I was now mimicking the “teapot” stance of an exasperated nudist, with one hand in the classic naked-hand-on-hip position, the other gesturing like an Italian cleaning an imaginary window.

He told me his story anyway. After confirming that his step-sister is an adult, that she became his step-sister after they both went through puberty and that they never lived in the same household as children, I gave him my almost-sincere naked blessing to make glorious, animal, consensual whoopee with the daughter of his father's bride. Be sure, I told him, to tell her how you feel just after she gets out of the shower. She'll welcome that conversation as much as I welcomed this one.

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