King of the Wild Front Ear

[f4f3]

Back up in Aberdeen, again, and finding it a very strange place.

Last week I did a fair bit of wandering up and down Union Street, reminding myself what a fine, handsome old town this is. Probably because it's coming up to party time, I didn't really notice on the streets just how few women were around.

It wasn't until I went for a drink, and wondered if I was being subliminally attracted to gay bars, that I realised it was something like a 90/10 split between male and female. My hotel was worse, table after table of males. This week's hotel is just as bad, leading me to decide that Aberdeen still has a frontier town feel about it, full of men working away from home. I wonder what it was like in the 80's when the oil boom was just getting started?

Comments

[morgaine-x.livejournal.com]

I was at university when the offshore activity was just starting in Newfoundland, and St John's was a great place to get a free drink! ;)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

...if you were a girl....

Reminds me of that joke where one guy is telling the other about how there's this place in Aberdeen where for a fiver they'll give you a three course meal, get you drunk, and then you can go through to the back room and shag all night long.
"Have you been there?"
"No, but my sister has."

I thank you...

[morgaine-x.livejournal.com]

You didn't have to be a girl, but a skirt or a low-cut top probably helped...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Nope, put me in a skirt or a low-cut top and it's not going to help anyone...

[morgaine-x.livejournal.com]

See, there you are, projecting your tastes onto others! Beauty is in the eye, etc etc.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Ok, well it's not going to help me...