Public displays of affection

[Miss Demeanour]

I went out last night after work for a quick drink . It was in the pub round the corner full of after office drinkers. It was extremely busy but there was a couple standing next to us that were obviously embroiled in some passionate affair and were trying to get their quota of each other before going home to their respective partners.  Seriously it was verging on the obscene at some points - you can tell I was watching closely can't you 

The person I was having a drink with was morally outraged and even dared to cough loudly to express his annoyance. They looked up from one another, received the disapproving glare and head shaking and then continued on regardless.

I tried to argue that there was absolutely no point in challenging them - they were not going to stop . There was no one else in the world apart from them right there and then, and they couldn't care less about what anyone else thought. I also thought it was quite fascinating - in a people watching, making themselves look complete idiots , kind of way 

I suggested we move if he was that bothered - which was met with disdain on the "why on earth should we move  - we were here first principle" 

I didn't stay long 

Would you have said anything , moved away or just watched ?

[Snoopy]

I'd have lit a ciggy and blown smoke at him. Just to watch the furious fanning that people like your colleague do whenever anyone lights up within forty yards. Bloody killjoy ~ Seriously I wouldn't go for a drink with him ever again.


How people behave in a pub is a matter for the Landlord and them ~ nobody else.

[Uncle Mort]

From my point of view, a public display of affection it's a bit like someone eating in front of starving man. 

I would have moved away.

[Snoopy]

   You prolly don't want that from me but it is meant in a manly sort of way.

[Miss Demeanour]

As long as it's not a doggy way 

[Uncle Mort]

Then he would get a bucket of cold water throw over him.   

[barmisspah?]

When my children were small, I worked in the pub next door.
During the luch hour we used to get a couple (who worked at the Gas Board down the road) using the pub car park to leave his van while they went off somewhere else in her car. The landlord would not have minded if they actually used the pub, he was also peeved that the guy parked his van right outside the kitchen window which blocked out all the light. After several weeks of this he eventually put a notice on the van asking him not to leave his van in the pub car park while he carried on his sordid little affair. Problem solved.

[Nick]

I went out last night after work for a quick drink

 

[Miss Demeanour]

What I didn't go out or it wasn't a quick drink 

[Nick]

 

[Miss Demeanour]

Whatever ...said with attitude and zigzaggy fingers 

[Nick]

 

[Pastis]

So, how far were they going, like... these folks?  That would be the decider for me.

[Nick]

Which folks?

[Pastis]

The pair in the OP