A Filmsy Exercise - Bikini, Throng

I had just put myself at the usual table by the window at my cafe this morning, and saw a young couple coming from the beach across the street and heading directly towards the cafe. She was in her tiniest bikini, and he in more of a jockstrap than any known type of swim-wear. They were both barefooted and dripping wet, obviously having just come out of the water, but are now entering the premises.

They took a table and started looking at the breakfast menu. All customers' eyes were on this couple as soon as they walked in and, I noted with amusement that most eyes were fixed on him rather than as usual on a young and not too bad looking woman. Bikinis are common here with the beach just yards opposite the road, but that 'thong-like' thingy on him was real eye catching to say the least, with his endowment flimsily covered by a few inches of wet cloth.

Almost immediately, the owner of the cafe went up to them and from what I could guess he was not there to take the order but to ask them to leave. I couldn't hear every word they exchanged, but could make out from the couple's faces, and the way they talked waving their arms about, that they were refusing to go. Voices were raised after that and the conversation boiled down to, that the owner saying they were not welcomed with wet swim wear and no shoes, and the couple's argument that they did not see any warning signs put up to that effect, and they just wanted breakfast, without bothering anybody. This went on for another 5 minutes or so, and the owner threatened to call the police, adding:

"You could sit until the police come if you must, but you are definitely not getting any breakfast here." I like him better now, I decided. Well done, Gregory, the proprietor.

The couple sat on, no food or service offered, began to look a bit awkward or uncomfortable. The rest of the customers looked rather amused, likely thought it was the best entertainment they had for the day. The police came soon enough, less than 2 minutes I'd say, and whether they liked it or not, the young couple were 'persuaded' to leave, with the police. I don't think they would be taken to the police station for this, probably just to scare them a little by giving them another talk-to outside.

I believe in certain protocol of decency of the dress code, even though unwritten, that there is the right or wrong attire for certain places. Roses is a tourist spot, a beach town, and it is now the beginning of summer. But skimpy swim-wear, barefooted and dripping wet entering a cafe-restaurant is in my eyes lacking respect to the establishment as well as to the other customers. Nor would I consider it correct to enter any other kind of buildings or shops.

Strangely, people who displayed such bad manners are always foreigners and, I am willing to bet, they would not do so in their own country. Somehow, many of them reckon they are in a foreign place, not likely to bump into friends and people who know them, so they throw all manners to the wind, without the slightest forethought that, such bad behaviour would contribute to give their own country a bad reputation. Like many drunk and disorderly or even destructive football hooligans visiting a foreign country.