Public Displays

Story time.

Earlier today, desperate for food, I headed to one of my favourite fast-food establishments. The queue was short, with only three or four of the usual "common" people in front of me. By common, I mean the completely gaumless and over-weight type of people you tend to find in these sort of places. Anyway, there happened to be a couple in front of me. The woman looked like she had just finished a particularly hard shift in some crappy store and the guy looked like a complete nob, and was wearing sunglasses despite it being cloudy and raining.

The guy then turned his back on the queue, to face in my direction, and proceeded to dry-hump his lady-friends leg. While I mildly tolerate public displays of affection, I would rather this sort of thing not happen a mere foot away from me. Averting my eyes, I looked at the other people in the building to see if they were a little confused by the goings-on. Everyone appeared to be in their own little world, munching on grease-filled, grease-coated pieces of chicken... I'm not sure what I found more disgusting; the thought of all the shit people were eating, or the guy still merrily thrusting away in front of me.

Still, being the hypocrite I am, I still ordered my food and fucked off back home to gorge myself on what will only, inevitably lead to an early heart-attack. It did get me to thinking, though, what my views are on public displays of affection and what I find tolerable.

Whilst I haven't reached a definite conclusion, I think dry-humping in public may cross a line for me. Unless, perhaps, its me being dry-humped by a particularly attractive girl. I'd probably stand there feeling quite uncomfortable, but if she was that attractive I'm sure it would cause other guys to be jealous, so it would lessen the displeasure for me.

I've held the hand of a love one, I've kissed a loved one in public. Do these cross a line? Does it depend on where I am? Being completely self-absorbed would mean that other people showing "too much" in terms of displaying there affection would piss me off, while I feel quite happy in doing it myself.

This half-arsed rant would be nothing without a link. Check out Public Displays of Affection: How much is too much. It's clear, concise and everything I can't do in my posts.

June 19th @ 1:04 AM | 0 Comments | Tags: people, hate, rant | Trackback