A Memory

Postby xtc » Tue Apr 23, 2013 3:59 pm

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!
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Re: A Memory

Postby mikeybound » Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:18 am

I recommend a story. How old we're you at the time?
And I believe it was "tugs snapshots or flash memories".

Re: A Memory

Postby xtc » Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:31 am

Thanks for the response.
I would have been in my twenties. Yes, I AM that old!
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but little speedos rule!

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Re: A Memory

Postby drawscore » Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:01 pm

I think American scouts tied each other up a lot more than their scoutmasters realized.

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Re: A Memory

Postby Jason Toddman » Mon May 13, 2013 8:41 pm

Sounds like it'd be a good story to ME! :big:
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