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Today I have learned that the controllers for the Playstation 3 and XBox 360 are wireless. This is just as it should be.

That's what I said when I woke up from the anaesthetic. He'd been going to get a sandwich or something while I was under, as there was nothing else for him to do really. So my first thought when I woke up was for him - no matter that I'd been under for god knows how long.

So I asked him and he told me that he had, and then I fell asleep again.

When I woke up for the second time my first question was whether he'd had something to eat. He'd been going to get a sandwich or something while I was under, as there was nothing else for him to do really. So my first thought when I woke up was for him - no matter that I'd been under for god knows how long.

So I asked him and he told me that he had, and then I fell asleep again.

When I woke up for the third time my first question was whether he'd had something to eat.

I don't like Public Displays of Affection.

There, I've said it. Now I'm all for tolerance, and I am not particularly happy that I feel this way, but as I transform myself from genteel man-about-town into irascible curmudgeon, I feel that I am, perhaps, permitted a moment to look at them and go... well, to be honest "ewwwwwwwwwww".

I'm not talking about holding hands here, although a family of four walking side by side holding hands is somewhere between sweet and a roadblock, or about a quick peck on the cheek. I'm talking about when a couple sit in a public place like an art gallery or shopping mall, or stand in the street, and basically attempt to climb inside each other.

I suppose I should really endorse it. I've been known to indulge, myself, but my fumblings have at least had the dignity to be up a back alley or in the doorway of a shop, at least trying to say to the world "I have a bit of decency about this". I suppose I should be thinking "good for them, that they're so much in love that they can't wait until they get home to do that, isn't young love sweet et cetera and so on" and all that exciting stuff I'd think I'd think.

But I don't.

As is so often the way with "not liking things", I don't really have a good reason for not liking public displays of affection. I suspect it's something to do with the rules of the street. There are certain ways that you behave yourself in public. You don't make eye contact. You don't draw attention to yourself, unless you want that attention. Eating your lover's tongue crosses the line. It draws the attention, but only so far. Because if you and your new best friend are indulging in the beginnings of foreplay, you probably don't want other people to join in - at least not in the street.