"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.
Stanley also didn't like guys like James, who were weird, always in search mode, doing the super-eye-contact thing to spot random gay men and bisexual men in crowds. Guys like James didn't respect relationships or boundaries. They didn't care if a man had a wife or girlfriend, or hell, even a male lover or partner. James was a cruiser, and in all likelihood, the weird little fucker probably had an STD.
Stanley wouldn't sleep with James if the fucker was giving it up for free, which he was. Stanley cannot speak for other bisexual men, but he has some principles and self-respect, damn it. What's wrong with people meeting, and getting to know each other, instead of just leaping into bed? Apparently, every gay man and every bisexual man in the City of Ottawa is programmed to make super-intense eye contact with random men and proposition them for bathroom sex. Well, Stanley isn't programmed to do that, so he really doesn't fit in...
Stanley is twenty five years old and has only been with two women at this point in his life. The first was a blonde-haired, curvy and busty white female escort named Amy, whom he met in the Vanier area. The second was Stanley's first serious girlfriend Veronica Angus. From the moment they met at Algonquin College, veronica simply took Stanley's breath away. She was a tall, curvy, big-booty young black woman with a smart mouth, totally his type. They dated throughout his days at Algonquin College.
Stanley enjoyed sex with Veronica and wanted them to have something permanent. Veronica graduated from Algonquin College and moved back to the City of Kingston, Jamaica, where she hails from. Stanley really misses Veronica. When she was in his life, they had sex regularly, and his other side was dormant. Stanley loved having Veronica in his life. Things were better when she was around...
Stanley is well aware that he's bisexual and thusly also feels drawn to men once in a while. Stanley doesn't creeps or weirdoes, which seem to make up the bulk of the gay male and bisexual male population of Ottawa, Ontario. He'd rather meet a guy who's normal-looking, normal-sounding, and honest, instead of a creepy weirdo with a staring problem, effeminate mannerisms and stalker tendencies. Is that an impossible request?