I had the pleasure of riding a Virgin yesterday. Even with endless caffeine fixes, bacon bagels and cookies, making tracks on the first class rail service into the centre of London isn't all it used to be with miserable looking passengers pretending to do important work on laptops rather than make eye contact with another human being for the whole of their journey. Why are people so uncomfortable having a natter with strangers these days?
It's not all bad though. Those who know me well, will know that I love to 'people watch' and for this reason I always look forward to the short journey that follows on the amazing thing we call the underground. The diverse range of commuters and tourists found on the underground provide rich pickings for me to indulge in my weird past time. Apart from yesterday.
Yesterday I was distracted ...
I was still aching after Sunday's aerobic endurance for beginners class, My shoes were killing me (darn I forgot my flats), my bag was heavy (too much paperwork) and kept catching on my stockings, it was hot, noisy and the guy with a guitar case and rucksack stood to my left didn't smell so sweet. That being said, it was a pleasantly familiar journey. Well, that was until a stop at Green Park when a young guy (yeah, yeah ok ... he was in his late forties) got on the train looking very smart with his navy single breasted and straight, tight trousers. He sat right opposite me and anyone taking the slightest bit of interest (not me, of course) would have noticed that he had lovey green come to bed eyes, slightly tousled, dark hair and just the right amount of shadow. He looked rather hot. Erm (cough, cough) I mean if I was looking I'm sure I would have noticed that he looked rather hot.
The cause of my distraction ...
Let me ask you all a fairly simple question: Why do guys on public transport feel the need to sit opposite you with their legs wide open, leaving very little to the imagination? Apart from the fact that it can be flippin' annoying for anyone who has the misfortune of sitting next to them, it's so desperately, desperately, desperately distracting for those (me in this case) sitting opposite them. Finding the right place to focus my eyes on was difficult. What is a well-brought up girl supposed to do in this situation?
It was hard, oh so hard ...
OK, hands up! Let's be honest, if any good looking guy on an underground train (or anywhere else for that matter) wants to sit opposite me and show off their happy tackle through a pair of tight trousers, go ahead I say because I'm a girl with a one-track mind and make no mistake ... I'm looking.
4:59 am Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
Ah .. you can tell Spring is in the air; my winter white halo is slipping and I'm in danger of sprouting a pair of horns. |
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5:18 am Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
The eye candy on trains here in Tokyo is just too much to bear, especially from this time onwards and into the summer. At peak commuting hours, groping is a notorious pastime, and in fact on some lines there are now female-only carriages at certain times of day when people are packed in like sardines. |
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5:51 am Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
Hmmm ,very interesting,dear Luc2Suc.I'm not sure that a guy sitting with his legs apart is necessarily a sublimitive signal,every time. |
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5:53 am Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
Ronald, I'm not sure that's always the case. Early mornings and hot, sweaty undergrounds don't always bring out the best. |
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6:06 am Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
" ... mission,should you choose to accept it ..." |
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6:39 am Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
MissGd, how very true. Having a meeting in London is like having an interview with a team of JKR's Dementors: |
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6:44 am Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
Luv2 Suc. Sunglasses ? To paraphrase the Blues Brothers " We've a train full of people,it's dark...and we are wearing sunglasses " |
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7:56 am Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
The Underground at busy periods is one of the most soul destroying places you can go. Any effort to interact with other passengers is frowned and and you're made to feel like a total nutter. Always remember to never, EVER make eye contact with anyone... EVER! |
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8:35 am Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
The Tube is up there with Aldi and Maplins. Beardy blokes Paedalino trains though are different - at certain times of day they can be almost pleasant (well in comparison to the squashathon on the tube) and potential contenders for some lite plan B. Having lived in Laaaandon twice now my preference is in fact the bus. At least you can gaze out of the windows at the teeming masses. |
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9:07 am Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
I suppose the corollary of this thread is "if women insist on wearing micro-skirts andor exposing vast areas of cleavage on public transport, do they have any right to feel offended if blokes stare at them?" For fear of ruffling the feathers of women's rights activists, I shall say no more, but I think it's relevant to consider in this context :-) |
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9:10 am Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
BTW I agree with Rigger about the Tube. I'm not in London often, but I avoid the Underground like the plague: it's foul and 'orrible compared to the Tokyo version. Would much rather pay over the odds and get a black cab, and enjoy cheery chat with the driver. Money well spent in my opinion. |
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9:50 am Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
I wonder why my comment got deleted? :-) Well at least one person saw it...... |
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2:12 pm Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
SAS: Don't worry, Luv2 is well known on these pages for her obsession with crotch-staring, and yet - as I've always maintained in previous posts - unless a bloke is wearing something almost skin-tight, there's actually little to see when the thing is flaccid. I think a lot of it is pure imagination on the part of the voyeuse.....or perhaps wishful thinking :-) I suppose if a guy on a train wanted to be really wicked, he could wear skin-tight jeans, shove a long piece of thick rubber hose down the top of one leg, and *then* sit with his legs asplay. It would still elicit the desired effect in those who felt compelled to stare, and yet the indecency would only be in the eye of the beholder. If confronted by Boris' Tube Police, the guy could always claim he had a bladder complaint and needed an extra-thick catheter :-) |
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2:38 pm Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
Luv2 - re the dark glasses, try taking a white stick along with you. They will then a) not be able to see you ogling b) accept as natural the dark glasses c) may be persuaded to help you from the train and to the nearest quiet corner while you try reading the brail on their underwear :-) |
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3:09 pm Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
ealish - there is also the denyability - "I am so sorry, I didn't mean to grab your happy tackle, I just couldn't see what I was touching" - "honest" |
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4:29 pm Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
Luv2 just wear your mask so that no one will recognise you! |
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8:14 pm Wednesday, 26th March, 2014
I agree that the London Underground is a dirty rotten place that smells of stale disinfectant (if you are lucky), but there is something thrilling about being herded like a lamb ready for slaughter down mile long escalators and onto a platform only to be squished onto a train. It may not be as pleasant as some other city undergrounds, but it is fun. |
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4:54 am Thursday, 27th March, 2014
Bag - check |
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4:54 am Thursday, 27th March, 2014
Graham, you didn't go to her rescue then? hmm ... |
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5:42 am Thursday, 27th March, 2014
They allow you one phone call luv2 - give me a ring and I will come and bail you out :-) (might take a couple of hours to get there but I would definitely bail you out - assuming the lawmen would let you go once they found out how gorgeous and sexy you areimg src="imagesadultemoticons012.gif" ) |
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5:43 am Thursday, 27th March, 2014
I've had my eyes for a while now, and the only way I can stop them regarding breasticles in a low cut top is to physically move my head so they can't swivel round that far. I've tried controlling them but to no avail...
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7:46 am Thursday, 27th March, 2014
You should be easy to spot then Luv2....;) |
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7:58 am Thursday, 27th March, 2014
Update: |
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10:19 am Thursday, 27th March, 2014
Disgraceful Luv2 demand your human rights to be able to peruse pervy website at your leisure!!! |
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10:23 am Thursday, 27th March, 2014
If you feel something warm snaking against your ankles, it'll be Dixon craving some attention: but it's OK, you can look :-) |
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12:57 pm Thursday, 27th March, 2014
QUICK LUNCHTIME UPDATE:
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1:38 pm Thursday, 27th March, 2014
Ah kanna gi' the tranporterr any moore, cap'n. We need some moare dilithium crystals! Have ye no ckecked forr the unknown life-forrm aroond yer ankles?? |
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3:48 pm Thursday, 27th March, 2014
Does anybody actually like golf, or do they just partake because it's the 'done thing' and pretend? |
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6:30 pm Thursday, 27th March, 2014
Luv2 are you not supposed to survive these things by imagining them all naked? |
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6:31 pm Thursday, 27th March, 2014
That probably should have been skebbie and I but to be honest its been a very long day (a very pleasant one I might add) and I need sustenance.... |
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4:47 am Friday, 28th March, 2014
I survived it Riggs, but not by imagining them all naked. I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than do that. |
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5:09 am Friday, 28th March, 2014
You could even be up for a Nobel prize luv2 - such dedication to the science of perving :-) - I wonder if I could get away with some serious perving by telling them as they arrested me - "it's a scientific survey - honest!" Maybe not lol |
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5:52 am Friday, 28th March, 2014
Gentlemen. You may be aware that I commissioned my most experienced Agent ( Code name Luv2Suc) to undertake a data-gathering exercise. |
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6:41 am Friday, 28th March, 2014
The name is Suc .... Luv2suc...... Cue theme tune "Nobody does it better".... As a masked lady fights her way through boring meetings and crowded tube carriages, fighting to uphold the British right of perving at leisure. Before the grand finale of destroying the evil golf liking, prawn sandwich spluttering baddies with a flick of her whip. And then escaping on the Piccadilly line and having a good peruse of a Russian agent sitting opposite in tight trousers ..... |
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7:29 am Friday, 28th March, 2014
The only time I ever heard my mum say the F word... |