Summertime, and a trip to a ‘family-friendly’ festival beckons
24 July 2010
Toby Young suffers from Status Anxiety
For a 46-year-old man, the most depressing thing about Latitude was the sheer quantity of beautiful young women. Wherever you looked there was some long-limbed goddess dressed in little more than a handkerchief. Insofar as they noticed me at all, I was the starey-eyed bald bloke with a wet patch on his trousers. (‘I couldn’t borrow that handkerchief for a second, could I?’) It didn’t take long for Caroline to pick up on this. ‘Stop perving,’ she said, as my head swivelled left and right like a gun turret.
Not sure we’ll be going to any more music festivals this year. Like Latitude, several of them are billed as ‘family friendly’, but most of the other dads looked at least ten years younger than me. The Last Night of the Proms is more my speed. And I’ll be leaving the kids at home.
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donna Trope
July 29th, 2010 4:05pm Report this commenti like the way u roll toby
D Short
July 30th, 2010 6:17pm Report this commentModern southern middle-class family life doesn't sound like much fun.
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