Porn on the Pavement.

My morning commute requires a transfer of busses downtown. I have several options, so I usually hop on which ever bus arrives first. This morning I hopped off my first bus and figured I had missed the next ideal bus, so I wandered around the corner for the next bus. While there, I looked up and saw my ideal bus was actually late and stuck at the traffic light a block away. So, I turned around, walked back to the other stop. As I was walking, I glanced down at and stepped over a piece of paper -- a page torn from a magazine. It took me a few steps to register what had been on the page, and by then I had boarded the bus.

What I had seen, at about 7:20 a.m. was a full-page =ahem= spread featuring anal penetration. [Geez, that should get some interesting hits on the old blogspot, eh?].

Now, it was too late for me to do anything about it -- I was already on the bus -- but I wondered, would I have stopped to pick it up? (Maybe, but then what? Throw it out? Find a recycle bin? Save it for later???) On second thought, would I even want to touch it? (Probably not.) I was also aware that about 30 minutes later my nephew and Mother-in-Law would have been changing busses at the same stop; I have to wonder if it was still there....