We had a good breakfast: eggs, bacon, strawberries over pancakes, hashbrowns, hot black coffee, and orange juice.
Then we made it to the sale barn and checked in.
I registered and received my buying number and paddle, and headed out to the pens. I like to walk the holding pens and check out the livestock for sale. I'm in the market for six heifers and two young bulls today. After getting the numbers of the ones I liked and wanted to bid on, I found my seat in the bleachers. I'm not the most social man on the planet, so after I talk to a handful of other ranchers I know well, I head into the sale ring and take a seat at the top of the bleachers that's off to the side and sit down. The boys, Angel is now just one of the boys, will soon find me.
I look up from my roaster and see Tyler walking towards me.
"Hey, Grandpa D, can we talk?"
"Us talking got us to where we are now, Tyler. But sure. What's on your mind?"
"Well, what we are doing is great. I have enjoyed every moment of the time we have spent together. But..." a long pause, Tyler continues, "I'd like things to go back to how they originally were."
"And how was that, exactly?"
"Only me and Jacob are doing our thing. But it's cool that you and Uncle D are in it with us. But, I mean, Jacob and I are going to be six hours away at college in a few weeks, and so we won't be here anyway. So that leaves you and Uncle D..."
"Leaves me and Bitch, where, exactly?" I interrupt Tyler by asking.
"Home. Together until we are home for a visit, and, well, I want both of you to be happy. Let me tell you why it didn't work out between Angel and Jacob. First, let me explain how male-on-male relationships work."
I raise my eyebrow and look at Tyler curiously because he is about to explain gay sex to me, yet he calls himself straight.
"Ok, Tyler. Explain"
"One is more a top, and one is more a bottom. The top is, like, more dominant, and the bottom is more submissive. Both like the sex, but the bottom..."
I interrupt by saying, "I get that, Tyler. I can piece together the roles. Get on with anything that applies to us."
"Ok. Jacob is a complete top, no doubt. I am not. Uncle D is somewhere in between, but when he and Jacob tried to play together, it just did not work. Uncle D couldn't dominate Jacob or be dominated by him, and Jacob wouldn't have handled that well anyway, so Uncle D and me, well, you know, he could me. However, even with me, it just wasn't his role. He tried it, but, well, neither one of us felt it was working. However, we both need what we do to satisfy us in life; we need the gay sex just like we need the straight sex. Sure, Uncle D and Michelle have a great sex life, and she is delighted.."
"Wait. Stop right there. I don't want to hear about my daughter and her husband's sex life. No way, no how. Especially since..."