I've posted this here before but it was lost in a thread involving lots of short remimiscences.
I know it's of the "innocent" (i.e. non-pornographic) type but I wonder if anyone thinks that this true snap-shot would make a good starting point for a fictional story. Let me know.
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I’ve just remembered this one from the seventies. It’s surprising what one’s eyes can take in over a very short duration.
I was on a train which was on an embankment, I can’t remember where, and I noticed in a field below what was obviously a Scout camp. There was the flag pole with the Union Flag flying and, incongruously, or so I thought, a very heavy rope laid out straight on the ground. It might have been a tug o’ war rope but looked a bit too hefty.
The next thing I noticed was a fairly scrawny, fair-haired kid in black shorts and a red t-shirt. His hands were tied behind him and he’d been tethered to the heavy rope. He was looking around at another boy who looked like a mixed-race lad being led out of some trees. He was bare chested and wearing combat trousers. He had an athletic figure and a reasonable Afro and was being led uncomplaining towards the rope by two other boys, one on each arm. The two captives were smiling ruefully at one another. I presume the second boy was about to join his mate.
Just goes to show: Scouts and Freemasons have some very unfathomable practices!