It's been very warm for a couple of days. Yesterday set an all-time local high for the date (beat the old record by almost 4 degrees!). And of course the warm weather brings out all the vermin from under their winter rocks.
They are easy to spot:
If they own a car, it will have the windows rolled down, the music (?) will be very loud, and the bass frequencies will be extremely emphasized. I assume they are attempting to communicate via African elephants' mating calls.
If they do not own a car, they will be walking (I believe that's what you call it) in the middle of the sidewalk, wearing an undersized t-shirt which shows their tattoos to good advantage. One assumes the tattoos are demonstrating ritual passage to adulthood. (Their preferred destination seems to be the local beer store.)
Or perhaps, they have been enterprising, and have recently purloined a bicycle. In this case, they will be pedalling - also on the sidewalk - to an unspecified destination (not the beer store) at moderately high speed and with suitably obvious abandon.
Either way, the non-car-borne will be stopping at all appropriate locations to inquire whether anyone has a smoke.
Not the females, though. Also festooned with multiple tattoos, they will be busily pushing their baby-walkers - conspicuously adorned with their personal emblems of consumption. In multiples of two, they also occupy the middle of the sidewalk.
At least they don't ask for smokes.
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