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Originally Posted by Sharkhunter
Being caught up in a queue whilst holding a porno mag was probably my worst nightmare. Thankfully I always seemed to time it perfectly. I too used the newspaper trick, often ironically with a copy of the Daily Mail.
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That was always a bit of a nightmare- but it's a funny thing, I can remember being caught up in a queue plenty of times waiting to pay a mag- but I swear it hardly ever seemed to happen to me in reverse- I don't have any great recollection of instances of being in a queue behind some embarrassed lad who was clutching that month's Men Only, and obviously wishing that I and everyone else in the shop were about a million miles away...
...except, there's one incident from my student days in the 80's that sticks in my mind- I was on my way to a lecture at uni, and called in at a nearby newagent for nothing more exciting than the daily paper and a fresh pad of A4, and as I walked in, noticed a young guy about my age scanning the top shelf, as you do...
Anyway, as I headed to the counter, there was a quite a queue,and he'd just got there ahead of me, with a copy of 'Fiesta'. At the end of the queue, there was a young woman (and an attractive one at that), waiting to pay for whatever she's bought- he walks up to her, they exchange a few words, which make it pretty clear they're a couple, and here's the bit that blew my mind- rather than queue up, he hands his 'Fiesta' to her, so she can take it to the till and pay for it!
I mean, I was barely out of my teens, and at that age, the thought that some women might actually be OK with their boyfriends looking at top shelf mags, or even enjoy looking at one with him was a totally alien concept to me.
Later on, I even wondered whether he'd sent in some pics of her for Readers' Wives, and if she might be in that month's issue, so picked up a copy for myself later that day- Sadly she wasn't...