After a fairly brief fight with cancer, although it seemed long as she experienced it, my wife died. We were both retired, our children have children of their own and live a few hundred miles away. So, after the funeral and everyone returning to their own lives, I was on my own. It's difficult adjusting to that. I mean, after a long marriage where you become sort of two halves of one organism, to all of a sudden be alone. I guess I knew that I should sell the house but it took about three years for me to finally get around to it. A house is a lot of work. I cut the grass, pulled weeds, watered, washed clothes and dishes, and took a lot of long walks. But finally sold and now, here I am, eighty years old, in a retirement facility with a lot of other old farts.
In many ways, this is easy. People to talk to, people to play bridge with, eating in a dining room with other people, and yet having my own little apartment with my own furniture and all. There are a lot more women than men. Some of these women, well, I doubt if I would have been friendly with them in years past. They're downright pushy. And it's almost funny, they're so open and forthright horny. A new guy showing up was like some raw meat had been tossed to the hungry lions. "Can you get an erection?" I was asked at lunch my first day here. Not even "my name is Mary, what's yours?' or "What did you used to do before you retired?" or any normal small talk. It was right away, "can you fuck?"
Fact is, it scared me off. Not that I was scared of fucking. I truly hadn't thought of it for several years. I still wake up with a woody so I guess I can. And now that it's been brought up, I guess I could be interested if the right woman came along and interested me and let me know she was also interested in me. But not these sex driven old bags that come on so strong.
Although, I guess I'm an old bag too. I still walk a lot and am in decent physical shape but it's obvious to me as well as to others that at eighty I'm not what I was fifty years ago. And neither are any of the others living here as physically attractive as they once might have been. Some are better than others, though.
Like Erma. I play bridge, a card game. Here, very often, it's possible to get four players together for a game. The second afternoon I was here, I ended up with this rather small, white haired woman as a partner. She is a whiz of a bridge player. Better than me. She's not bad looking, fairly quiet, obviously has a sharp mind. So, when possible, I would try and make sure Erma was my partner. Then, one day after breakfast when I'm taking my walk, I see Erma walking. She's in shorts and I realize that she's in good physical shape for another old person like me. So, we start taking some walks together as well as playing bridge together. We even end up often sitting at the same table, with some others, at meal time.
So, one day during our morning walk, this quiet, little white haired woman says to me, "I've had several girls ask me how good you are in bed."
The remark surprised me. Not that some of those horny women would think that we're fucking but that Erma, quiet Erma, would bring it up. "I guess they see us together a lot and let their minds go in that direction," is my rather weak reply. Truthfully, I had no idea what to say.
"I had to tell them that I didn't know," she said. "We hadn't got around to that yet."
I stopped and looked at her. "Yet?" I asked, "So you think we will?"
"Well, only if you want to, of course. But we're both here after years of being used to regular sex and now having none. I'm sure you miss your wife. I miss my husband. So it seems logical since we get along so well that we'd move on to sex eventually. It's just taking longer than I had thought it would."
"But you've never given any indication!" I sort of blustered, I'm so surprised by this.
"I've been living in the past, assuming the male would make the move and I would just agree. Today, I guess women are more aggressive. So, Walt, why don't we have sex?"
I just looked at her and grinned. "I really have missed having a naked female in my arms. And I've missed the taste of an aroused pussy and making a woman go nuts with an orgasm. "