The young people in Kathmandu need to get a room, for real, yiiikes

This is a part of 'project 110, going back and re-filling', writing is happening 8ish months after the date.

These pages have borne witness to my tales of young people doing inappropriate things in public places in Kathmandu. One dare not sit on an empty-ish public bus, particularly towards  the back or in the dark if there's a couple nearby, because they will for certain start making out or pawing each other. The makeout culture in Nepal is really out of control, something that I've never seen in the U.S. It's understandable...they don't have a private space, getting hotel rooms is expensive, and for most people going out of valley to spend time with their partners is not an easy proposition. So they make the best out of their limited resources and feel each other up, kiss and even fingerbang at every chance they may get, even if that involves public spaces where they might be observed. Such as the back ends of busses, public parks, temples in the darks, museums, empty cafes, garden restaurants, near the bushes, corners of restaurants, that place outside the restrooms when nobody else is watching, hiking trails, biking trails, trekking trails, rivers, river-beaches, trenches, forests, schools and colleges, heaps of isolated trash, rooftops, stairs, and so forth.

It's not unreasonable, there's a sense of identification with those poor souls, one has surely found oneself in such a situation. Hopefully these things eventually fade out because it's just too much, maan!

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