Oh learned one I may of sinned. Whilst waiting for my cycling buddies this morning outside Barnet Church, I had occasion to watch a lovely filly astride a Pinnerello pass by wearing lycra clothing, and she had a ponytail as well.
I smiled and said hello, she smiled back, I had unworthy thoughts. Should I be punished?
No.
Unlike the yoghurt-wearing, sandal-knitting lefties on here, I aren't repressed and cowed into believing women don't have desires and urges like men.
Trust me they do. And the athletic ones are even more so.
Sadly, like GregCollins, I fear you are like a Saint Bernhard in a greyhound race. You are in the traps all eager, you hear the bell ring, and you get a stirring in your loins. Your hearbeat increases as you hear the lively little filly approach. Nose pressed against the starting gate, you brace your legs against the back door, ready to give yourself extra purchase for the 'off'
The gun goes bang.........
The door opens............
The filly scampers away down the track, kicking up sand behind her with every stride..........
We look back at the trap and see our hero, still imprisioned in his metal tutu. Legs spinning like Wile E Coyote, toungue salivating like a leaking gutter, but forward momentum lacking.
Collectively, we will you on and, with a pop, out you fall, indignantly on to the track. Popcorn buckets are crushed in anticipation as we urge you to your feet, encouraging shouts of, "Go Rocky, go Rocky" are kindly ignored.
Eventually you surprise all of us and get to your feet and set off in hot pursuit of the now-distant filly.
Vangelis 'Chariots of Fire' is playing in our ears as you lollop along in slow motion, like an elephant seal on a beach.
Stil urged on by the hunger in your eyes, you gain momentum, but the filly is long gone - like a cream cake at a weight watchers meeting, she has been snatched from your very grasp.
And the moral of this sad tale: Look, but don't touch - Chase, but don't catch.
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