DATELINE: RALPHS SHOPPING CENTER
The familiar sight of the used condom — a ubiquitous presence on sidewalks, high school courtyards, parking lots and other public places in the West San Fernando Valley — has suddenly taken a back seat to disposable gloves, which now surpass the prophylactic sheath by a ratio of more than twenty to one, according to data compiled by the Canoga Park Department of Latex, which tracks such trends.
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| Toodle-loo, Trojans; Later, LifeStyles: Discarded latex gloves, not used condoms, are what's trending now on the fashionable sidewalks, parking lots and public thoroughfares of Canoga Park. Staff photos. |
“Used to be you couldn’t walk ten feet without squishing a used [condom],” says Reseda resident Lupe Darula as she transferred 12-packs of Angel Soft two-ply from her shopping cart into her car outside Ralphs on Sherman Way. “These days, it’s those gloves. They’re everywhere. I guess because of this coronavirus thing, people just aren’t having sex in parking lots anymore.”
“It's sad, really. I don't know if we'll ever get back to the way things were,” she wondered aloud as she peeled off her own gloves, dropping one on the cart's flip-up child seat, and shooting the other across the parking lot.
“Ooh, look — I got some good distance with that one.”
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