I have been here, in this spot, for a very long time. I wasn’t always in the state I am in now. I have changed over time, and time has treated me, shall we say, inconsistently.
Inconsistently may be a strange word to explain time, but bear with me.
I have witnessed many things in all my states of being. In the good old days, when I was something other than I am now, I only knew of birds and insects and animals, of all varieties. They populated me, lived with me, and I with them. I called them my little friends.
You would think that as I exist now, I would have the same friends around me. This is why time is inconsistent. Some of those friends have gone to be replaced by others.
It was a long time ago when I first met a friend that called themselves human, I now call them people, because that’s what they call themselves. At first they came on horseback, put up their tents, lived with me for a while and then left me alone, often for long periods of time.
These friends eventually visited me more and more. I liked them, at first, even though they used to burn small patches of the grass that covered me. Over time, the single horses eventually turned into carriages but they didn’t stop that much. In fact, very rarely; to be precise it was to let the horses shit all over me, but that wasn’t a bad thing, not really.
A little further away from me, and about a few hundred years ago, the people built concrete dwellings to replace the wooden ones; and before them the fabric ones of old.
That was when they turned me into a thing they called a layby. They brought with them containers that they call cars or lorries; using me to rest up for a while. The trees close to the track, though they call it a road now, were chopped down. The people poured loose chippings all over me, to save me from getting churned up.
I don’t think I look nice. If I were to be honest, more rough and ready, I would say.
I’ve seen some sights, I can tell you. I used to watch the animals, my friends, reproduce many years ago; I still do actually, but not when the people are around.
People fall into a few categories. There are those that place their car carefully, lock it up, and then walk in the woods, often with a dog. Then there are those that just seem to park their car, leave the doors open and chat. The noise from their cars deafens me at times. If I could, I would get up and leave, but I’m stuck here. I’m really not sure how they can hear each other with all that noise they produce. Then there are those that come with their big lorries and stay the night. I like them, they keep me company. Then there are the naughty ones; the ones that fornicate like my friends, the animals, except they do it in their containers.
I find that strange, if you ask me.
Most of the people that spend time with me, leave me by the time the sun sets, and few are with me when the dew is starting to evaporate from the leaves and grass. I have seen wonderful sights like the arcs of brightly coloured rainbows that fill you with awe and the sunrises and sunsets that fill your soul.
I’ve also seen and heard a lot of arguments between people in their cars and I often wondered why they do that to themselves. They are generally of the opposite sex, yet they do exactly the opposite to some of the other people I’ve witnessed. The other ones can’t seem to get enough of each other.
Like I said, I’ve seen some sights.
There seems to be a bit of a pattern forming lately though and I fear for my own existence. Goodness knows what the people who built me will do when they find out. I don’t think it’s normal, but who am I to say.
It generally happens on a Friday. Yes, I’ve come to know the days of the week that the people use. It’s a handy reference. So, on Friday, these people turn up in their cars just before dark. There are generally two cars with couples in them, not always the same two though. They sit in their cars until other ones turn up.
I shook my head at first, not understanding why these people left it so late to go for a walk, and then, when they got here, they never bothered to get out of their car, they just drove away again.
Recently though, more and more cars have been turning up, it’s been a right royal party at times and I’ve kind of enjoyed it. It’s nice having someone here after dark even if they do make a mess.
Anyway, like I said, these other cars turn up, and I thought it strange at first that they only contained men.
Then the fun started. I watched intently as the woman of one of the cars got out and walked in front of the bonnet.
I thought, at last, someone is going for a walk, but dressed like that…they have to be joking. Seriously, she was wearing an excuse for a skirt that barely covered her hips, the stockings she had on were full of square holes and she had the most useless pair of shoes that I have ever seen anyone wear; especially on muddy ground like me. Her upper body was no less ridiculous. She sported a plastic, or was it leather top, with a zip that nestled between her breasts. I actually wouldn’t have called it a top, it was three sizes too small and her breasts were heaving from being confined in it. I was expecting the zip to give way at any moment.
She slipped onto the bonnet of the car and I caught sight of the man in her car lift his bottom off the seat and then sit back down on it. He was watching her all the time.
So were the other men in their cars that had parked opposite her.
I was a little mesmerised at the sight before me and it made me chuckle when she produced some metal handcuffs and locked one over her wrist. She did the same to the other one and soon her hands were tight together.
I watched her play with herself. I mean, if I wanted to do that I wouldn’t have confined my hands like she had. I would have wanted to use both of them to good effect. Not her though. She let her hand slip down beneath her skirt and she played with herself, making sure everyone else could see her.
Eventually a man got out of one of the cars opposite her. He walked to where she was reclining and took her hands by the cuffs and pulled her with him.
That was when the other men also got out of their cars.