"It's my life," Stanley Thurgood said to himself, and the big and tall, dark-skinned young African American man looked at the OC Transpo bus that sped away, leaving him stranded across the street from the Walmart located on Innes Road, in the east end of Ottawa, Ontario. The 94 bus sped through the highway, going toward the West End. Stanley knew that he would have to wait another half an hour before he caught another bus and brought his black ass home. Life quite simply sucks sometimes...
For the thousandth time, Stanley wondered what could have possessed him to leave his hometown of Detroit, Michigan, and move to Ontario, Canada. After spending some time at his uncle Alan Thurgood place in the City of Windsor, Ontario, Stanley decided that small-town Canada wasn't for him. Stanley tried his luck in the City of Toronto and although he loved the big metropolis, it was too expensive to live and too hard to navigate since he didn't have a car anymore. That's how Stanley ended up in the City of Ottawa...
Fast forward three years, and Stanley Thurgood is a new permanent resident of Canada. The brother still speaks with a thick Michigan accent, which his friends and co-workers constantly point out. Stanley has a Police Foundations diploma from Algonquin College and wants to be a police officer. Unfortunately, Stanley is going to have to wait until he's a Canadian citizen. For now, he's working security, a gig which he definitely doesn't love...
Stanley thought of a rather lousy experience he had that morning, while standing guard at the gate of the Walmart on Innes Road. The life of a security guard is by no means super exciting and when it is, it's definitely for all the wrong reasons. Usually, the security guard is being picked on by assholes and bitches working for Walmart, or those extremely lousy people who shop at Walmart. Nope, on that day, Stanley's pain came from a most unusual individual...
There was this weird young white dude named James, who had a disabled hand, and kept leering at Stanley while the brother was just working security. Seriously, what's with queer dudes always getting the urge to hit on random guys? It's almost as if it's the law or something. Now, Stanley is by no means homophobic. The burly, dark-skinned brother is bisexual and although somewhat private about it, he simply believes in living his life and letting other people live theirs.
The LGBT community treats bisexual people, especially bisexual men, like shit, so Stanley doesn't feel drawn into their world. He mostly leads a straight life, preferring women to men. For this and many other reasons, James and his ilk don't appeal to Stanley at all. A man, whether gay or bisexual, who goes around having sex with random men without knowing diddly squat about them is asking for an STD...or worse. He could end up having sex with a psycho and then vanish without a trace. Obviously, James is a member of that risquΓ© club...
"We should go in the washroom at the back of the Walmart, I'll blow you," James said, leering at Stanley through those super-intense, weird eyes. Stanley had seen eyes like that on most queer males. The moment they saw an attractive, masculine man, they simply had to make weird, super-intense eye contact and then follow that man around. Stanley had no desire to have a sexual encounter with James. The bozo was short, pale, ugly, and oh yeah, creepy as fuck...
"No thanks, I don't fuck around," Stanley replied, and James shot him a weird look, as if getting turned down by another man had never happened to him. While Stanley worked security at the door, James, a long-time employee of Walmart, kept coming around. He looked at Stanley the way a hungry person looks at fast food. Oh, and he wasn't the only one. There was also Aiden, the tall and athletic, rainbow-button-wearing white dude who worked at the nearby McDonald's.
"Whatever," James said, and he walked away from Stanley, looking at him as though there was something wrong with Stanley for turning him down. Stanley shook his head, thankful that he'd dodged another bullet. Whenever Stanley thought of a man sexually, he didn't think of the super-annoying, effeminate ones that were so common in Ottawa, walking around the mall with their obligatory female friends.