touching up

[chance]

Craig and Anthony were talking about attitudes towards gay people and Craig sought assurances from his mate that he's never "touched him up".

The pair had been getting on well and Anthony had been saying how he goes to gay clubs and bars despite not being gay himself and has no problem with it. They both agreed that there's still a lot of intolerance towards gay people.

"Why don't they just let people be who they want to be?" Craig asked. "As long as you're not forcing issues on them, that's when I get annoyed, when people force their issues on them."

"What people do in their own home is up to them," Anthony added in agreement.

"But if I, say, started groping you I'd be bang out of order," said Craig plucking a random example out of the air.

"Then the line is crossed," Anthony replied and started humming to himself loudly.

Craig fell silent and asked: "I've never done that to you have I?"

Anthony just kept humming noisily.

"Have I?" Craig asked again, this time a little more sternly.

"Nope," Anthony replied quickly.

Then Craig muttered: "I don't look at you like that anyway to be quite honest with you."