I just need to leave this somewhere
I go to college in a small, back-woods kind of town decried in the rest of the country for being full of backward-ass conservative hicks.
I dropped my LD girlfriend off at the train this morning after a week together. We're not all that PDA-y, really, mainly because we have a pretty complicated relationship, but over the course of this week, I kissed her in the supermarket aisle, and in our favorite café, and in the middle of a crowded high street, and in the checkout line at H&M, and on an escalator at the mall. You hear stories of homophobia from people, and I kept expecting something to happen, but there we were, in what has to be one of the most conservative places in this country, and the only acknowledgement was that this morning, after I dropped her off with a kiss or two or three, and a heart drawn on a grimy train window with my fingers, as I watched her train leave and wiped my cheeks, a little old lady smiled at me and asked me if I needed a tissue.
So, for the record? Small town Bavarians give me hope.
I dropped my LD girlfriend off at the train this morning after a week together. We're not all that PDA-y, really, mainly because we have a pretty complicated relationship, but over the course of this week, I kissed her in the supermarket aisle, and in our favorite café, and in the middle of a crowded high street, and in the checkout line at H&M, and on an escalator at the mall. You hear stories of homophobia from people, and I kept expecting something to happen, but there we were, in what has to be one of the most conservative places in this country, and the only acknowledgement was that this morning, after I dropped her off with a kiss or two or three, and a heart drawn on a grimy train window with my fingers, as I watched her train leave and wiped my cheeks, a little old lady smiled at me and asked me if I needed a tissue.
So, for the record? Small town Bavarians give me hope.