It's rather horrible. I've just seen my wife, effectively, shoo the fellow out of our town. According to her (and is she right?) the young man is clearly travelling from town to town, trying ever unsuccessfully to get himself 'chosen' by a girl, to lose his virginity quite probably, remaining for half a year (that's what my wife thinks) in any one place before giving up and getting himself off to the next congregation of people. One of the young men undesired by most girls.
She has seen him in two other places, a result of her line of consultancy work which involves month-long sojourns in small hotels, and she's convinced that this is how it is. In each new place the fellow presents what he is - his talk (which is awkward according to her), yes to his credit the reliability he will clearly show if ever he gets to be a husband, but then his appearance which (again according to her) is a little runty.
The younger people go clubbing in our town, that's where they barter themselves, and it was there that my wife placed her hands upon the fellow's shoulders and told him that she'd seen him in 'x' town and seen him in 'y' town, and 'why did he think the girls here would think any differently to the girls back there?'
I am a little shocked at her seeming lack of empathy, to be frank with you. But she seems to be . . . irritated somehow, by the 'losers'. I told her that the fellow seemed to show a laudable enterprise and adaptability by being able to move from place to place every half year and to fund himself. She says that perhaps it is enterprise, but that's just the point - enterprise shouldn't be needed. The need for enterprise is what is ugly about all these men.
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