Seven or eight years ago I was living with my boyfriend Mark in Boston. We were young and crazy, especially crazy about each other. Although we are no longer a couple, I still have all sorts of fond memories from that period. We were both little lust bunnies for whom sex was as important as eating and sleeping, and nearly as important as breathing. Every room in the apartment and nearly every piece of furniture we had was eventually "broken in", as we called it. Our little escapades extended to such places as locked bathrooms during parties at the houses of friends, in darkened theaters, and even a memorable tryst in an elevator that we stopped between floors. It was almost a game to us, and we definitely pushed the limits of propriety.
It was during that wild period that we were involved in a little incident that I can recall as if it happened yesterday. Neither of us had a car, so we did the bulk of our traveling around town by public transportation. This had its pluses and minuses, but with money as tight as it was, it was our only real option, so we did what we had to do. One hot sunny Saturday in July we boarded the Green Line to take us across town into Brookline, a nearby town that is basically part of Boston. That was fine, except that it was almost noontime and there was a Red Sox game at Fenway Park that day. The subway train that we were on soon got packed with people, and I do mean packed. It was if everyone who was going to the game was on our car. By the time it reached capacity, we were in the middle of the car, surrounded by the masses of humanity wearing Red Sox paraphernalia. I was in a good mood and, knowing that it was a temporary situation, didn't mind the tight squeeze so much. I just made peace with the circumstances and stayed tight with my boyfriend.