My name is Lynn and my best friend is named Lee. Lee and I first met through a mutual best friend named Michael. Michael and I were counselors together at a summer camp and had instantly become close friends. On our off time, we would visit Michael's parents to wash a load of laundry, grab some home cooked food, and hang out with his long-time best friend, Lee. The next summer, Lee joined us at camp and we became the Three Amigos. Over the next 4 years, we all grew close as friends, enjoyed hikes together, college football, and living life to the fullest. I eventually took a full-time job at the camp and Lee would come up on the weekends to relax from his big-boy job, work weekend retreat groups with me, and spend time with his girlfriend. He stayed with me in my cabin on the nights he was in town.
A few years earlier, Michael and I were talking about life and girls and the subject of being "big enough" came up. Through the conversation, he shared that Lee was "hung like a horse". "It's the biggest I've ever seen!" From that moment on, I thought about it every time I saw Lee...for years.
When Lee stayed over, he would stay with me in my room. It was a very small room, big enough only for a twin bed and a small night stand with not much extra room. Lee always slept on an air mattress next to my bed, which effectively took up the entire floor space.
One night, I was awaked by the intense urge to pee. Forgetting that Lee was on the floor next to me, I stepped out of bed and ended up crashing down on top of him. HE. NEVER. FLINCHED. He always said he was a hard sleeper, but I had to check to see if he was even alive! (He was...obviously, or I wouldn't be writing this.) He didn't lie. I even called his name once I got up to make sure he was ok. I apologized the next morning and he was clueless as to the incident. That experience was the catalyst for everything that happened from there forward.
I quickly devised a plan to test out how "out of it" he really was when he was asleep. The next few weekends, I would stay awake until extremely late in the morning to make sure he was asleep, then would run experiments on him to test his sleep tolerance, if you will. He is a back-sleeper, so it made things a lot easier. I flashed my camera flash in his face, I called his name loudly, I shook him, I prodded him in the chest, stomach, and legs. Nothing. His breathing was constant; never changing rhythm or depth. Nothing would wake him up.