Let me start by saying I'm 70 years old, married for nearly 50 of those years to the same woman, and mostly faithful for all of those years. There was one brief fling at an out of town conference, it wasn't very satisfactory, I felt badly afterwards, and I never repeated it, and that was nearly thirty years ago.
I probably look like what I am, a retired college professor, gray haired, skinny but not athletic, a little stooped, the kind of demeanor that folks describe as "mild mannered." I try to walk three miles a day, but that's the main exercise I get.
I live in a small town in upstate New York, near the college I taught at for three decades, and I had traveled to Massachusetts to attend the funeral of an old friend and colleague. He was the first of us to go, and as I drove back alone, I was feeling my mortality, and thinking of all the things I'd never done.
I stopped at a rest area about halfway home, got a cup of coffee, and decided to stretch my legs, get a little of my daily walking in...my Fitbit scolds me if I don't.
I walked around the rest area, past the dog park, past the grassy area around the edge, and when I got to the end of it and went to cut back, I found I was in the middle of thicket of huge trailer trucks. I went to cut through them, when a trucker leaned his head out of his window and called out, "Hey, pal!"
I looked up. "Me?"
"Yeah, you. You wanna give me a blow job?"
I couldn't believe my ears. "What?"
"You wanna suck my cock?"
"What on earth would make you think that?"
"What else you doin' walkin' out here?"
"I really...just walking. I don't...I've never done anything like that."
"Hey, your loss."
He started to roll his window back. It was dusk, and getting hard to see clearly, but he looked to be about 30 years old, and maybe it was a trick of the light, but he reminded me of Marlon Brando playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I said, "Wait a minute."
He rolled his window back down.
"Do people really do that? Walk through here, looking for..."