Spitting

‘Have you noticed,’ Johnny rolled his eyes, he wondered how many times he’d heard those three little words from his mate before Steve launched into one of his tirades, ‘how many people are spitting these days? It’s everywhere, wherever you go there always seems to be someone gobbing on to the pavement or in to the gutter. It’s bloody disgusting.’

Johnny thought for a minute, and then nodded. ‘I hadn’t noticed but now you mention it, you’re right.’

‘And it’s everyone too,’  Steve continued 'well no that’s no fair, it’s every man, for some reason women don’t seem to feel the need to spit every other second. I saw a kid of about 7 spitting the other day and a man of about 70. If women don’t need to do it why do they feel the need?’

‘I guess they see their football heroes do it on the TV and think it is okay.’

‘Christ we also see footballers diving at the slightest touch but you don’t see people walking down the street throwing themselves on the floor and rolling round if someone bumps into them. I’m sorry but seeing footballers doing it doesn’t excuse it.’

‘True true,’ agreed Johnny. ‘And they don’t tend to look where they’re spitting. Some kid almost spat on my shoe the other day.’

Steve looked at Johnny in shock. It was rare he ever tried to get a word in edgeways when Steve was in full flow.

‘It’s like porn.’ said Steve

‘Porn? said Johnny, he was used to  Steve’s tenuous links but how was Steve going to link spitting to porn.

‘Yeah, have you noticed,’ there’s that phrase again thought Johnny, ‘that porn is omnipotent these days, it used to be something that was private, frowned upon, that went on behind closed doors but now people openly discuss it on TV on the radio and that’s mostly men too.’

‘Sorry mate but I don’t get your connection, it’s not like you see people using porn in public do you?’

‘Well if you think about it, in some respects you do, I mean there are strip bars open on most high streets these days but my point is that it’s something that used to... quite rightly be taboo and now seems it’s the social norm, I can’t remember when it changed but it has.’

Johnny still thought Steve was stretching a point so decided to stretch his legs by going to the bar to refresh their drinks.