Continuing the adventures of an ageing but horny, skirt chasing businessman. Best to read Parts 1 and 2 first, to appreciate the terrible character you will read about.
This is a reissue of a tale I published a few years ago under a different name.
Please remember to vote if you like it!
*****
WHAT'S IN A DRY OLD FUCK?
Chapter Three: Fuck George...a minor operation...male childbirth
"Fuck George" I thought. "Fuck him to death and beyond. If he's still alive, which I doubt."
I was coming round after the operation on my prostate. Eyes half open, I realised I was speaking out loud. All I could think of was old George and what he had said forty years before - words that had troubled me subconsciously ever since, off and on. Mostly off, but now, here in my hospital bed, I wondered whether George's predictions might finally be about to come true.
George was retired, but each afternoon of the working week, he came into the insurance company offices where I worked as a twenty year old. He had internal and external post duties. He also had a strange idea about losing interest in sex; it went like this: "You're always talking and thinking about sex at your age" he had said one day to us young studs, as we played cards in the men's rest room and talked endlessly about IT. "But one day, you'll wake up, and you won't want it anymore."
You might have thought the laughter would bring the whole three storey city centre building down. Waking up and not wanting sex was unthinkable to young men of our age and with what we imagined was our indestructible virility. George, the sixty-odd year old post delivery aid insisted: "You won't believe it now, of course. But when you get to my age, it'll just go away quietly, it'll fade away, and one morning you'll wake up, and you won't want it anymore."
More loud laughter. "It happened to me. I know what it's like. And it won't matter when it happens to you; you won't think about it, you won't even worry about it anymore, because you won't get the same urges. See what I mean? You won't worry, because you won't want it. You'll see."
George the impossibly inarticulate left the room to get on with his post and when the raucous mirth and whooping had died down, the last word on the subject was mine: "I'll tell you this much: to wake up without a stiff dick is a joke. The very day I wake up and don't want it any more, I think I'll probably top myself." In those days, we were always thinking that tomorrow would be better. We survived youth and much more, before we even imagined the reverse could be true.
I realise that after anesthetic, people can be inclined to say daft things. But now, lying here in my hospital bed, feeling groggy and sore, and with a most unpleasant kind of aching along what seemed like the whole length of my penis and all the way up into my belly, all I could do was talk quietly and absurdly about George and his damned ancient prophesy. And wonder if suicide time would soon be here.