All characters are over eighteen. There is the tiniest kernel of autobiography in my tale.
My long-time editor, LarryInSeattle, seems to be taking a break. For this story I need to thank Viper61 for editing. Any errors that remain are my own.
Enjoy. Helpful comments are always appreciated.
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I had seen holes in bathroom partitions before but I had no idea what purpose they served until my senior year in high school. I'd just turned eighteen and just graduated. I was bored out of my skull with nothing to do, except work, until I left for college. I had moments when I wasn't sure I would make it through the summer. In my mind "college" had achieved near mythic status. "College" would rescue me from the dullness of small-town life. "College" would be a place where people talked about books and movies and ideas, not just football, basketball, baseball and fucking. I had no girlfriend. We'd decided, with very little fuss or bother, that we weren't so into each other that it made sense to attempt a long-distance relationship. She was already gone (how I envied her). So, unless I was working, I hung out at the mall, primarily the arcade. I was determined to make it into the ranks of top ten scorers on Galaga before I left for college.
That's where I had been heading on The Day the Mystery of the Holes was solved. The Big Gulp I had drunk on the drive to the mall did its work and I had to piss like a race horse. When I entered the men's room all the urinals were occupied. I waited. No one seemed to be doing anything. After a couple of minutes my situation became desperate. I went into the one open stall, kicking the seat up with the toe of shoe, unzipped and let 'er rip. My body shuddered as my straining bladder let go. Isn't that an amazing feeling? That shivery relief of letting go when you really need to take a leak?
It seemed like I pissed forever. I shook off and was tucking my dick back in my pants. I had stopped wearing underwear, thinking it made me edgy and cool, or as edgy and cool as one could achieve in the little slice of dipshit Illinois I called home. As I was buttoning my fly and digging how my dick looked under the tight denim, something caught my eye. I turned my head and froze, amazed, stunned, intrigued, or some combination of the three had me holding my breath.
There was a dick sticking through the hole.
I'd never seen a
hard
dick, other than my own. You couldn't avoid seeing dick in the shower after gym class though. Some of them looked to be a little longer and chubbier than expected, not that
I'd
noticed, but I'd never seen another man with a true boner. The sudden urge to reach out and touch the hard dick jutting through the wall succeeded in breaking through my confusion. What the fuck was I thinking? Fear and panic replaced intrigue and amazement. I bolted. I finished buttoning my jeans as I hurried toward the door. I heard one of the men at the urinals laugh and say something that I couldn't quite make out. I never considered continuing on to the arcade. I walked as fast as I could without running, hopped in my poor beat-up Vega and got the hell outta Dodge.
I couldn't get the image of that dick out of my head. I can see it quite clearly even today, so many dicks later. I paid no attention as the corn fields marched past the car window, all the stalks lined up as perfectly as if readying for an inspection by the top brass. It was hard not to notice the fact that my dick was hard. It had started to get hard as I enjoyed the way it looked, and felt, trapped under my tight jeans, even before I ever saw the dick. Maybe it makes me a douche but I've always liked my dick; it's the only thing about my body I truly like. I had gotten harder at the sight of the dick. It was still hard. It had stayed hard as I'd fled the mall for the safety, such as it was, of a rusting out Vega that burned a quart of oil every four hundred miles or so. The persistence of my wood carried implications I had no desire to ponder. My balls developed that deep ache I hadn't felt since breaking up with Shelly.
We hadn't fucked but she did let me reach under her panties once. I didn't get my finger into her snatch but I could feel how hot and wet she was. She touched me through my jeans once or twice. She had gotten to where she would usually let me play with her tits, sometimes even with her shirt up and bra unfastened. I would have the same deep ache and hard dick driving home from her house. I couldn't be queer. I'd loved making out with Shelly and my only regret at the break-up is that it put me even further from any hope of getting laid before I was, like, thirty or forty.
Sure, I had learned to be careful after gym class and not stare in the shower but that was normal. Guys always checked out other guys, mostly to see how we compared. That didn't mean anything. My best buddy, Randy, had swiped some hard-core mags from his older brother. This wasn't
Playboy
or even