Posted by Mark on August 1, 2008, 16:30:53
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First of all, I had a huge scare last night before going to the fair. I was watching local TV with my mom and after seeing some ads for the fair, she said she had heard the fair board had ruled to ban smoking throughout the grounds this year. My heart obviously skipped a beat, but it didn't make any sense because tons of people were smoking the night before and there was zero enforcement against them. I looked it up online and discovered it wasn't my local fair that imposed the ban, it was the fair in Rochester, a city about an hour away. Rochester's politically correct fair board chose to exploit the "workplace smoking ban" that prohibits smoking within 25 feet of a work station, which means every fair walkway in proximity to a vending station is smoking prohibited. So not every square inch of their fairgrounds will ban smoking, but it sounds as though 80% of the grounds are smoke free, which is scary enough. Even the carnies are gonna be forced to hide out in their trailers to smoke. Seems like carnies would be a group most inclined to boycott such an irrational restriction, leaving the carnival of the fair high and dry.
I've been predicting for years that fairgrounds-wide smoking bans were only a few years away, and the precedent has now been set and thus likely to be mimicked elsewhere in the very near future. The only point of difference with the Rochester fair than either my local fair and the Minnesota and Iowa State Fairs is that the former is a "free fair" with no cost of admission and thus less likely to be concerned with ticking off customers and reducing attendance (and thus operating revenue) the way that my county fair and the two state fairs do. Nonetheless, it's pretty obvious that political correctness and junk science will prevail sooner or later. My only hope is that it's later. Each fair that I attend without a fairgrounds-wide smoking ban will be considered a gift at this point.
Now onto the good news...the sightings. It was another robust night, where I scored 25 solid sightings over the course of four hours of navigation, with some stunners in the mix.
One of the best came early in the evening when I walked in the low-traffic area behind the livestock barns where I saw an attractive young light brunette in a hot little blue summer dress in the company of what I assumed were older relatives. I could have sworn I saw a cigarette between her fingers from a distance so I approached quickly and discovered I was right. All three women had just lit up, even though the young one was the only one who was even remotely attractive. She had a very fresh face and looked about 16, but my hunch is she was probably more like 18-19 upon closer inspection. Still, seeing her smoking a cigarette in that sexy dress in the company of her family was a great start to the evening.
The next sighting is a bit of a multilayered saga. Right when I arrived at the fair, I bought some food and ate it at the VFW Bingo stand, a roofed facility with open windows that has several ashtrays seated on every desk, seemingly in blatant violation of the statewide smoking ban. And it's not just old Bingo-playing hens in there either. I had already seen two young hotties smoking there on Wednesday night. As for last night, I took notice of two 16-17 ish girls sitting across the table with what I assumed to be the mother of one of them (she was smoking), and made a mental note that they looked like smokers. The one girl was a petite dark-skinned Latino with a sexy little body draped in jean shorts. The other girl was a taller dirty blonde, also in jean shorts. Neither were 10's on the sexiness Richter scale, but both were solid 7's and since they looked like smokers, they had my attention.
Almost inadvertantly, I kept running into them all night, initially never with a cigarette in hand. That all changed in, of all places, the entrance to the "kiddie barn" with little animal exhibits, where the Latino girl, likely underage, finished off an all-white in front of a crowd of surrounding adults. Less than 15 minutes later, I saw the girls exiting the fairgrounds and decided to follow them at a comfortable distance towards the gate...which proved to be a good choice. This time, the blonde was extracting a pack of Marlboro Lights from her purse and proceeded to light up. From there, the girls would return to the fairgrounds with an older Hispanic woman (likely the mother of the younger Hispanic girl) and on two more occasions later in the evening, I would see both girls smoking along with the Hispanic mother. Talk about getting my bang for my buck out of two nicotine cuties!
The epic sighting of the night came about a half hour later though. As I was approaching the commercial exhibits building, I noticed three mischievous little teeny-boppers heading towards the sparse bleachers area on the north side of the building and I had a strong expectation that tobacco was about to be consumed. Now I'm getting older and it's not as easy to discern the seventh grade girls from the 10th grade girls nowadays, but these three didn't look a day older than 14, and one of them looked even younger than that.
Even though my gut told me I was looking at fresh-faced nico-teenagers in the year 2008, I still couldn't quite bring myself to believe that they were rebellious enough to be smoking at the fair. I sat on a bench and stole glances their directions every few seconds. I couldn't tell if the girls were taking note of me watching them or just incredibly nervous about getting spotted by other adults, but they kept looking around them to make sure the coast was clear. Finally, my hunch was confirmed as I spotted wisps of smoke coming from the fingers of two of the girls, and then spotted a cigarette in the hands of the third as well. What a treat!
Unfortunately, the girls' fears got the best of them and they started to migrate into the campground area behind all of the buildings with their cigarettes, still not convinced they were out of the view of law enforcement or disapproving elders. I had to be fast on my feet to get a closer look before they migrated out of sight, and quickly walked into the commercial exhibit building and raced to the back, where I was able to watch the three cuties sneaking back behind the trailers to finish their cigarettes.
And what dolls they were. None of them were "class hottie" material in the sense that my #2 sighting in the history of the Minnesota State Fair back in 2000 was, but all had a girl-next-door quality that I know I would have been pleased to pursue back in middle school. The cutest was the girl who appeared to be the youngest, with shoulder-length dark brown hair and glasses that gave her a certain "cute nerd" look. One of the other two girls was a light brunette in a strapless red top and tight blue jeans, while the other girl, a dirty blonde who was the most conventionally pretty of the three, wore an adorable little white sundress. For about 10 seconds, I watched them parade behind the trailers out of sight, cigarettes in hand, en route to engage in some precocious smoking. It was a great sighting, but it could have been positively mind-blowing if I had been able to actually watch the actual smoking show. I did spot the girls again later that night on the midway, but this time without cigarettes. The week is still relatively young, and I'm hoping that I can get a full course sightings meal from these girls yet, either tonight or tomorrow night, after the tasty appetizer they already treated me with.
Nothing else last night compared with that, but there were still some "damn....she smokes?" moments with sexy 17-21ish babes, especially in the midway area where I scored a handful of impressive sightings. When the concert got out last night, a sexy short-haired early 20's brunette in a denim miniskirt lit up my world when she lit up a cigarette and smoked it right in front of me outside the grandstand.
Then, on my walk out to my car, I followed a moderately attractive college-age blond as she smoked her cigarette. Seems like I almost always pull off an excellent nightcap sighting at the very end of the day.
Anyway, I'm kind of racing through this report because I'm on my way out the door for night three of my fair sightings safari tonight. It's always exciting to know that I'm almost certain to see SOMETHING sexy tonight...and be sure I'll return to report on it tomorrow when I do.
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