This isn’t vanity.<\/p>\n
I know where my qualities are, and my physical appearance isn’t that place.<\/p>\n
So… <\/p>\n
On Saturday evening S and I went shopping at Morrison’s in Bromsgrove.<\/p>\n
Wow, what a couple of really wild, crazy kids we are, huh? Shopping at Morrison’s in Bromsgrove on a Saturday night?<\/p>\n
How cool are we?<\/p>\n
Not very, obviously.<\/p>\n
Anyway… <\/p>\n
S was wearing smart work clothes. I was wearing (naturally enough) a T-shirt, pair of jodhpurs and the almost ever-present wellies.<\/p>\n
As S and I approached the door to the store (poet!) from one direction a mother and her 10-year-old daughter approached from the other, coming towards us.<\/p>\n
The daughter checked me out.<\/p>\n
I mean she stared full-on at my crotch.<\/p>\n
Two things:<\/p>\n
1. I don’t mind being checked out; it’s a vanity thing, I like having my ego stroked and being ogled in a favourable way is a hardcore case of ego-stroking.<\/p>\n
2. I found it disturbing to be checked out by a 10-year-old girl. No, really! Disturbing! I’ve been told that wearing jodhpurs brings things to the fore (so to speak), and I’m kinda used to being checked out because of that.<\/p>\n
But by a 10-year-old girl?<\/p>\n
Disturbing.<\/p>\n
Really!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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