I was a tourist attraction
Last May, I f got invited to a dinner at Inner Temple by my friend A, who's a barrister and one of the PhD students here. We weren't travelling together, and arranged to meet at Temple Tube.

As is the prerogative of the woman, A was late. I wandered about the station concourse for a bit.

The dinner was black tie, so I was in my kilt. By the ticket booth, a family was watching me. From the looks of them, they were from Latin America somewhere. Eventually, one of them plucked up the courage to come over to me, and, shyly and in slightly broken English, asked if I'd mind if she took my photo.

I smiled, said "Of course,"... and charged her a tenner.*



*Last five words may have been added for comic effect.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 30 May 2008, 15:52, 11 replies)

Is it ethical
to go out with one of your students?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 30 May 2008, 15:54, closed)

@al
She's not, strictly speaking, one of mine. Besides, she asked me - albeit partly, I think, to annoy one of the other staff members here with whom she'd just split up. And she's rather lovely, so I think that makes it OK.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 30 May 2008, 15:56, closed)

"As is the prerogative of the woman"
oi, watch it, you!
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 30 May 2008, 15:56, closed)

@al
it's fine. I was in a relationship with the PhD Tutor when I was a student. He wasn't my supervisor, and we had to declare it to the Head of Dept, but it's quite common and we were more open about it than most.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 30 May 2008, 15:58, closed)

*Sigh*
But there was no relationship in my case. Oh, well...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 30 May 2008, 15:59, closed)

By "open"
were you doing it in lecture theatres or in his car in the college car parks? Not that you do that sort of thing in cars or anything.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 30 May 2008, 16:05, closed)

^
by "open" I am obliquely referring to the fact that it was also an open relationship, and a bloody good one at that.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 30 May 2008, 16:07, closed)

I personally don't get
open relationships. Surely it's just having a fuck buddy?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 30 May 2008, 16:09, closed)

@al
nope, I've had fuck buddies. It's different. It worked well. I loved him, I looked forward to spending time with him, we got on incredibly well, we shared each other's lives. I trusted him more than anyone else, and likewise. Just - I got to sleep with other people which kept things interesting. He could do the same but for the most part chose not to as he was less interested in it. We were completely honest and open with each other and very supportive of each other. It was good.

(He was Dutch, that might have been one of the reasons it was so, er, progressive.)
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 30 May 2008, 16:16, closed)

Must take a special person
(not meaning special in a retarded sense, special in the actual, er, special sense) I couldn't have a committed relationship with someone if I knew they were off sleeping with other people, but I guess everyone's different.

I personally like mixing HP sauce into my baked beans and have recently discovered the joys of Reggae Reggae Sauce, my other half likes neither of these things. But I still love her.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 30 May 2008, 16:19, closed)

!
I had completely bypassed the bit where Enzyme mentioned he was in a kilt.

*wanders off to bed in reverie...*
*stops when she remembers her grandfather and his brothers in their kilts*

Damn, that was only appropriate for a second.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 30 May 2008, 22:20, closed)