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About 25 years ago (give or take a century), I'm walking up the main drag in my hometown (heading north) and I see this girl in hot pants and a halter top walking south. Not being satisfied with the view from the front, I, genius that I am, have to check out the view of the back while I'm still walking. I'm heading right for this pole, and what saved me was that my foot hit the base of said pole 1st. I grab the pole thinking that I had bumped into someone. There are people passing me that saw what happened and they have that "oh yeah, you're a idiot" look.
Anyway, there is a young guy, about 25 or so, that stops and asks me if I'm OK, so I tell him that I'm fine and nod back towards miss hot pants. He says to me, "I was walking north and saw her coming and figured I have got to get a better look at her". So he made like he was window shopping and got a look at her both coming and going. He figured "what the hell, I've got everything I need and have nothing to do for the rest of the afternoon, so why not"
and had been walking behind her for the last block and a 1/2. I ask if I can join him and off we go. The sway she had was almost hypnotic. The next block, she turns into this store that, when we get there, find that it's a "ladies garments" store. He asks me if I going to go in and I tell him that I would if there was something in there that I needed. He said "I am so strongly considering it.........but", so we started heading back in our original direction.
It's amazing that you can be walking a perfectly straight line, turn your head for 2 seconds and drift 60 degrees to port in maybe 5 steps
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