In preparation for our annual Regency role-play event, Abel and I went into a theatrical costume hire shop.
After he’d tried on some tight white breeches (fwoar!) and fancy coats, he just couldn’t resist drawing the innocent costumier into a sordid conversation.
Abel: Do you have any canes?
Costumier: Excuse me?
A.: Walking canes.
C.: Oh… No, we don’t hire out accessories. But you can make one at home.
A. Looks extremely interested.
C.: You can take a broom handle, and on top of it you put one of these knobs from the end of a curtain rail. You know what I mean?
A. Oh, yes, thank you! What a fabulous idea!
Haron (looking on, under her breath): If you think you’re beating me with a broom handle…
I don’t think he’s making a walking stick. But isn’t it just like Abel, to drag some poor woman into a conversation about canes – even if they were completely different canes…
Lol, some people have no self control, do they?
My fiance is ordering a fancy walking cane for our wedding… I have also forbidden him from beating me with it.
You know they have those hollowed out walking canes. Perhaps what Abel needs instead of a broom handle is one of those with an actual can hidden discretely inside…
Em, that’s an awesome idea. Think of the real canes he could carry inside…
I sooo nearly turned to her and said, “I wonder whether you can get old school canes on eBay”…
I think the broom handle will be fine!
Sorry Haron!
This reminds me of a passage from a Dickens’ novel (I think Little Dorrit? Our Mutual Friend maybe?) wherein it is revealed that a husband beats his wife with an umbrella. Wouldn’t that be cumbersome? What if it was raining?
Oh, but Puella, hitting people with umbrellas can be so much fun!
Ah, this reminds me…
I work away my weekends in a well-known highstreet Pharmacy. Said Pharmacy chain, apparently, usually stocks a variety of walking canes in their larger branches: the public know this, but often, the staff do not.
So, imagine my kinky surprise when on my first day working here, I was asked to show a customer our complete range of canes, and to explain their various functions and attributes…
Toby – this is just wonderful. I’m just imagining you saying, “I’m sorry, sir: you need Ann Summers, next door.”