I slid, already tired although it was just past noon, into George's Tavern on the fringe of the small beach town, dressed for business—cobalt-blue silk biker shorts over a red-silk thong jock, white boat shoes without socks, and white mesh athletic muscle T above—to show off the great late-summer tan underneath. Not more than a week after July 4th, it still was a very patriotic dress day for me.
I took my regular stool at the bar. As I did so, an old geezer, tall, handsome for his age, tight-bodied, and bald, broke away from a group of other old guys at a table and came to the bar, taking a stool, but leaving one empty between us. This was my bar of choice on the outskirts of the Florida Panhandle Gulf-coast town of Watersound Beach to hook up with older men, who tended to pay more. When I wanted younger, more fit and vigorous guys, I went to a couple of taverns outside of Destin, closer to Elgin Airbase. It wasn't that this was my only choice in life. I was a submissive and I liked being fucked. I also liked being paid for it, though.
"You look thirsty," he said, giving me a smile. "Can I stand you a drink?"
"Sure," I said. I, in fact, was parched. I'd just come from four hours walking beyond a garbage truck and emptying cans into the back. A shower and a brief nap after I got back to my apartment and I was out to the bars, where I earned the bigger bucks to support my night courses at the local community college. I was determined to get somewhere. It was a rough road to somewhere though.
The man signaled to the barman. When we'd given our orders, he turned to me—he had a nice smile—and said, "How old are you, son?"
"Twenty-one," I answered. "Want to see an ID?" Both the question and my response openly revealed that we were negotiating here—and what we were negotiating about.
The man's eyes went to the barman who'd served us the drinks, and Pete murmured, "He's fine," which seemed to settle that. I knew I did look young for my age. But I also knew I looked damn good for guys looking for something young. My body was sculpted well. I just had a baby face, I guess.
It was the truth that I now was twenty-one and it seemed to be the first thing all of the men asked me when I came into one of these bars. The bartenders here at George's knew that. I watered here frequently, and they'd served me even before I'd turned twenty-one. There were a couple of places I went where the men didn't ask—because they didn't really want me to be as old as I was. I knew how to act with these men—each time like a naïve virgin. And when I let my hair down, I'm sure I looked girlish.
The man let out a sigh—probably of relief—and took a wad of cash out of his pocket. It was far more than was needed for the drinks. So far so good. He separated the bills, pushing a few toward the barkeep when our beers arrived and tucking the far larger wad of bills on the bar top next to where he set the beer can down. The wad sat there as both a promise and a proposition.
"My name is Hal," he said. "I've seen you in here before."
"Craig here," I answered. "I come here often."
"I've seen you leave with men from here." So, this wasn't going to be a long-drawn-out, beating-around-the bush conversation. The man was in heat. That's OK. It had been a hot day for me too.
"I'm sure you have. I leave here with men when I have a notion too." I gave him a direct look.
"You have a great tan."
"Thanks. I work on it." I did. It's why I wore mesh athletic T-shirts to bars like this. They showed off my tan as well as my cut physique. The neighborhoods I slung garbage cans in most mornings weren't swanky ones. It was the Florida Panhandle, in the summer, I often worked bare-chested. Always in shorts.
"I've noticed the tan doesn't go all the way up on your legs. You're wearing shorter shorts now than you usually do."
"Sorry, is that a problem?" I asked. It certainly seemed weird that he'd ask this.
"No," he said, and laughed. "But it's something I notice. I have somewhat of a tan line fetish. I find it interesting. Seeing the contrast and the pattern of it, focusing in on the goods, is a real turn-on for me."
So, this was going to be easy. I had a really well-defined tan line pattern. My goods also were quite good enough.
"Of course," he continued, "if you wanted to avoid that—showing a distinct tan line—there are beaches here where you can get an all-over tan."
"An all-over tan?" I said. And, yeah, right, I could just lay out on the beach all morning rather than muscle trashcans.
"Nudist beaches. There are some nudist beaches in the area. I'm a nudist. I notice tan lines and such. A nudist can get an all-over tan. I'm tan all over because there's a nudist beach just below my house."
"But you like guys with tan lines?"
"Yes. Them with tan lines, me tan all over," he answered.
"So, you aren't advertising for nudist beaches?"
"No, just sayin' what I liked in a guy."
"In a guy you want to screw."
"Yes."
Well, alrighty then. So, I'm going to get to see and admire his "all-over" too, I thought. Well, OK, his body looked tight enough for his age. I didn't discern any sagging or bagging. No problem if his billfold was sagging.