I was getting used to living alone for the most part. I'm not one of those people that needs to be in a crowd. I've always been the type that enjoys being alone and as the old saying goes, I may be alone but I'm never lonely.
As far as lives go, I've lived a blessed life. I've been in love 5 times in my life and of those 5 times I managed to get married twice. Of those two marriages I also managed to father two very wonderful children who are everything that a father could want.
But, for whatever the reason marriage to their mothers just didn't work out but I at least managed to save the friendship part of both marriages. I somehow even managed to bring my two women together to the point that they now consider each other best friends.
Like I said in the end the marriages didn't work and here I am on my own. Both children are grown with lives of their own. The ex-wives live in different cities. I myself have my own one-bedroom apartment living on my own with my day to day life so all is good. Oh, before I forget.
Just a tiny bit of background about my life...
In the beginning I thought for sure that I was gay. Then as the years passed, I came to realize that I wasn't gay but I was in fact, very bi-sexual. Of course in the late 70's I had no clue what that term meant so for the better part of my late teens and early twenty's I lived a very confused and tormented life.
As the years went by and the horrible early years of the AIDS pandemic hit, I steered away from the lifestyle of enjoying the company of men and lived a very heterosexual life. I would from time to time indulge in giving the occasional discreet blowjob to a very select number of men over the years but never allowing my urges to carry out anything other than that.
But last summer something happened that changed everything for me and started something that I thought was over with...
The events that started me on my new path were the epitome of clichΓ©. It's like the start of many a gay porn movie that you could think of and of course it's the type of shit that could only happen to me. Just typing this makes me laugh.
I was very angry on this particular day because the vent over my stove wasn't working properly. The more I tried to fix it on my own the angrier I got. I pay too much money for this place not to have everything working as it should, I thought to myself. I finally had it and enough was enough. I started to head out the door to go complain at the main office but first I grabbed the trash to dump it out.
As I made my way to the dumpster which is located next to the maintenance office, I could see that the garage door was open and their little golf cart was out front. This let me know that the guy in charge of maintenance was in there somewhere.
I tossed the trash and made my way to the open garage. There was my friend Carlos tinkering away on something. When I walked in unannounced, I think I may have startled him.
"So, do you people ever work?" Carlos about jumped out his skin at the sound of my voice. "Fuck me man, you trying to give me a heart attack?!" The look on his face and the tone in his voice caused me to slightly laugh out loud. "Sorry didn't mean to scare you."
I proceeded to break down my issue and he proceeded to break down apartment repair request protocol. "So, you mean to tell me that I have to go to the office first and tell them everything that I told you just so it can get fixed?" The look of disbelief and the tone of my voice made him grin his little smirky grin.
"Tell you what old man let me go take a look at what's going on so that you don't have a heart attack. But only this once ok?" At that point I didn't know if he was serious or if he was fucking with me. Plus, who the fuck was he calling old?