I grew up in a blue collar family. Dad was a welder and Mom worked in an insurance office. We lived in a small town about two hours west of Houston where both my parents were born and all our family lived. Our family consisted of Dad, Mom, me and my little brother who was 10 at the time.
I guess Mom and Dad were pretty heavy weekend drinkers. They would go out every Saturday night and sleep late every Sunday, smelling like booze when they got up. Dad was 39 and Mom was 38 at the time. Dad was a pretty big man, he stood six feet tall and weighed about 200 pounds. At 18, I was the spitting image of him, same hair color and style, same height and weight. I played on the varsity football team my sophomore year in high school and was headed to a junior college on a scholarship that fall. All the family, Mom included couldn't get over how much I looked like Dad.
Mom was quite simply a beautiful woman with a great body and she knew it. She was always perfectly made up and dressed to show off her hourglass figure. In the last few years, I had lost quite a few friends because I whipped their ass over comments they made about my Mom. She was a flirt with everyone and didn't mind showing a lot of cleavage or leg. She wore short, tight skirts and blouses to work every day and when she put on a pair of shorts they were so short and tight, there was not much left to the imagination in either the front or back. Mom and Dad had a lot of arguments about the way she dressed. But, she was my Mom and no one was going to talk about her. I can honestly say that I was more embarrassed by than attracted to the way my Mom dressed and acted.
This story took place when I was 18 in 1987. Seems my older cousin Susan was getting married at the end of July and there was going to be a bachelor party for the groom on Friday night and a big party for the bride and other women on Saturday night. The guys had a poker game scheduled for Saturday night at my Grandfathers house. Dad had been working out of town for two weeks and didn't get home until late Friday night, so we didn't leave until early Saturday morning.
Because my grandfathers brothers had come in for the festivities they slept in the big house and we were quartered in a small house out back where my dad's grandmother once lived. It had a combination kitchen/den, bathroom and bedroom. My great-grandmothers full sized bed had been replaced with bunk beds in the bedroom. There was a couch with a pull out bed in the den. Naturally my brother and I would sleep on the couch.