Steam Room
ALL CHARACTERS ARE OVER 18. All characters are fictional and any resemblance to real or other fictional characters is coincidence and unintentional.
Not often, but sometimes by pure chance, something happens to us that changes not only our self but our very soul. A simple experience that is no more than a blink of an eye compared to how long we live, changes us forever. It can however be our undoing. For what we have experienced may never come our way again, regardless of how much we try.
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I was in a steam room, the ones where it's hard to breathe and so wet from the thick, hot steam. There was only two of us in there. He was sitting on the top bench and I was on the bottom bench because it was just too hot on the top for me. We exchanged small talk for what seemed like fifteen minutes or so.
As the conversation became more personal about our experiences in a steam room. The other man asked me if I had ever been with another man. I answered no. He asked had I ever considered it. My mind started playing back my many thoughts I have had about this very thing. Being honest with my new whatever this was becoming friend, I said yes, I have, many times. I continued...I never have had the right opportunity or was comfortable with the right person to do anything about it.
Looking at him, I asked the same question. Have you been with a man? He said no. Being married, he often thought about it but, like me never had done anything. Each of us lamented over the missed opportunities we might have had. After all there is only so much time on the clock. Our lifetime clock.