What was he doing?

[Jada59]

I have a very fertile imagination. My gardener has been walking around all day, almost naked. Best I could tell, he had on shoes and a too large pair of basketball shorts with the middle of the waistband tucked under so it came close to showing his goodies.

He asked to borrow my phone as the charger for his died. Needed to text someone.

He did not bring the phone back. So I went looking. Did not see him at first. Just heard heavy breathing. Then I saw his feet, bare and behind the couch. Apparently he did not hear me approach. When I called his name, I saw what looked like him, rapidly pulling up his shorts. He was stretched out on the floor. So...

What was he doing?

 

[TempSpawn]

Checking for a hernia? Massaging a pulled muscle in his groin?

Borrowed the phone to call an online physio?

 

[Carnevil9]

Phone sex?

 

[sirhugs]

Checking for a hernia? Massaging a pulled muscle in his groin?

Borrowed the phone to call an online physio?

gotta watch out for those hernias.

 

[LupusDei]

Clothes are uncomfortable in the heat. Basketball shorts are... an option. So yeah, that far, it's nothing, probably. Even dropping said shorts while assuming privacy doesn't necessarily mean activities of sexual nature, although initial intent of simply "cooling off" can sometimes go that way rather easily.

Then, well, I wouldn't give my phone to anyone and if did wouldn't give them privacy with it, but I'm paranoid, and you and your gardener... that's story so long already. However, aren't the chargers mostly interchangeable now? Well, that could be EU requirement...

Do you have private photos on your phone?

And I don't, necessarily, mean especially naughty images. Any images of you or other people.

If so, those could potentially be in any way of inspiration to, well, inadvertent hand movements...
The simplest option of course is your images, the creeper, some of your friends or relatives in there.

There's lots of other, probably more straightforward options one could do with a smartphone, with potential effects in one's pants. Most (but not all) could leave a trace. "Private mode" internet browsing shouldn't, if done right (that's what that mode is for), but only to an extent.