I did keep it a secret when I first started punting back in 2017 and never told anyone plus I didn't do it for 2 years after that.
I was embarrassed at the time till one day one of my mates confessed that he once seen a hooker so I ended up spilling the beans myself. Now all my friends know (I told them all myself)
The only people who don't know are my family or civvie girls that I've been seeing, they'd be horrified if they found out how much I've spent on escorts lmao.
But yeah I shouldn't really be too open avout it but it does make for some good banter and discussions with my friends at times. Some of them want to do it themselves but are too scared to go through with it.
Ah, but can you be absolutely, totally, sure of the bit of your post that I've copied in bold, OP? You sound a bit too, erm, "cocksure" - pun intended - for your own safety.
You - we -
never know who's around. And that's even true in a connurbation where you may be punting in a nearby town so that you don't "shit on your own midden" as we say oop north.
It just takes one uncle, aunty, cousin, work colleague to be on the same stretch of road - passing by on a bus, say, or driving to the cinema - for your cover to be blown.
I'm probably old enough to be your grandad - and yes, still regularly punting - but I always have a cover story planned to explain, if a family member, friend or former work colleague suddenly asks, "Oh, by the way, I saw you last Tuesday in such and such a place; what were you doing
there?"