ON THE HUNT FOR LOOFA SPONGES…

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ON THE HUNT FOR LOOFA SPONGES…

In his book “Leisureville” Andrew Blechman points out the rather interesting swinger scene that takes place in TV. For those less “in the know” Swinging is known more crudely as “Wife Swapping”.  Blechman opens the door on this subject to the annoyance of The Villagers.

Unless you are calling for Andrew Blechman’s demise in the most hideous of ways, even mentioning his name among TV true believers will make them begin to snarl and foam at the mouth like rabid beasts. The book Leisureville pulled back the curtain on what is little more than a modern and non-fictional Peyton Place and they hate him for telling the truth.

Blechman published his book back in 2008, when Lake Sumter Landing had barely been built and Brownwood was nothing but a gleam in Gary Morse’s eye. At the time of the book’s publishing most everything south of Lake Sumter was nothing more than thousands of acres of grazing lands yet to be fouled up by TV construction teams.  So we are treated to a picture of out of control Villagers acting like 7^th and 8^th grade junior high school students who have no parents to answer to and healthy bank accounts with which to indulge themselves.

Since that time, TV has grown exponentially, and all of the bad things about TV have grown with it. Whether Swinging is good or bad, is open to interpretation, but adult children and grand children are not usually thrilled to find out that Mom and Pop and/or Grandma & Grandpa are getting it on with the neighbors.

If you go to the so-called “Lifestyle” websites like SwingLife and Swapper Net, you will find that there is a near inexhaustible roster of available partners who list themselves as being in TV. Other venues for finding someone to have a big Villages fling with are CraigsList and Back Page.

Villagers are inventive creatures and they have now invented their own system with which to find other “Swingers” .  It is the lowly loofa sponge.

It seems that those “in the lifestyle” who reside in TV have taken to attaching loofa sponges to the tops of their golf carts indicating that they are “Swingers”. There are different colored loofas depending on your various preferences, however I have not yet been able to find out what the colors mean.

This important information came from that always interesting website “Talk Of The Villages” and also from another website called “Topix-Lady Lake” which is the township in which some of TV sits.

Once I found out this little bit of colorful information, we loaded up the bus and went on the hunt for the elusive Swinger loofas. We found them to be more elusive than we thought. Now to be fair, we were out hunting in the middle of the day during the week. We would have likely had a better hunt had we gone into the squares in the evening when the gang is gathered to drink, listen to the free bands or DJs and dance.

But we didn’t come up empty. We saw two golf carts adorned with the telling sponges.  Getting a quick look at them I knew right away that I wouldn’t go near ANY of them.

But if you’re driving thru TV, here’s a game that beats count the license plates..Try playing find the loofa!!!