Young Love

During the walk today, the only other people of note in the park were this teenage couple snogging on a park bench. We all remember those days, many many many years ago.

I remember the early days of my courting years, oh how I enjoyed the park then. It's a natural part of any courtship for a teenager. Where else can you go and get some good snogging practice in? Another wonderful reason why parks are marvellous.

It's a funny thing though. As a grown up mature married adult, we know that snogging in public is NOT ALLOWED. Yet seeing those two kids, clearly thinking they're in love embracing on the park bench, made me nostalgic for my early courting days and then I remembered all the uncertainty, awkwardness and disappointment. Actually I don't ever remember being the one on the bench, I was always the one sat in my room playing Sensible Soccer with no female interaction.

I hope the world never becomes too cynical that two young loves can't snog openly in public on park bench.

So naturally I decided to do my warm down exercises of leg squats and thrusts, just in front of the bench. I was impressed they lasted 45 seconds. They should have been in school anyway. Dirty stopouts.