Staying in a hotel with workmates for a course and four of us, 2 men and 2 women, spent an hour by the pool one evening. The previous day we’d been talking about a govt plan to introduce ID cards (this is the UK) and about privacy generally. The older woman, Emma, perhaps playing devil’s advocate, had argued ‘I’ve got nothing to hide because I’ve done nothing wrong ’. The rest of us had tried to argue that you might want to keep something private even if you’ve nothing to be ashamed of but Emma wouldn’t have it.
By the pool the other guy, Mike, having waited until Emma was getting changed under a towel, asked her why she bothered with a towel if she had nothing to hide. Emma rolled her eyes then dropped the towel and did a quick twirl, topless only but looked pretty good for 40 ish. Mike got a better look than I did but he certainly deserved it.
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