Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Living in separate worlds
Candida Crewe’s description of the teenage boy’s “misplaced belief that Lynx is a way to a girl’s heart (or at least to the inside of her bra)” made me laugh out loud – partly at the idea that a modern boy might still be so innocent of ambition in his amatory adventures.
It also evoked a memory from a few years ago, when I was sitting at a bus stop one sunny summer afternoon about half past four. It is the stop which serves the local high school, & I was joined by a boy who had obviously stayed behind for sports practice.
He sat down & rummaged in his kit bag from which he, quite unselfconsciously, took out a can of Lynx & proceeded to give his armpits a good squirt.
Old ladies are invisible to boys of that age.
