I am a 60 year old male and this is my true coming of age story. This may not be jerk off material.
It happened ...
This was the seventies. I had just turned eighteen and was still living at home with my parents. We were living in suburbia on the outskirts of New Orleans. New Orleans is famous for the French Quarter and the gays who live there. I was young, horny, naive, and was starting to experiment with marijuana. Me and my friends were young and didn't much money, so we had to 'bum weed'. The beginning of this story unfolds by me tagging along with a friend who was going to visit this older man he knew so we could ultimately smoke some weed.
We took a transit bus down to the quarter and walked several blocks through the French Quarter and ended up in front of this door on Royal Street. We hit the buzzer and were buzzed in. Bob, the older man who would soon take my virginity, had been waiting for us. Although I had been in the French Quarter many times in my life, it was mostly via car with my parents. I had never really walked down there and got to experience it up close. The French Quarter and these old historical buildings were strange to me. We entered through this locked iron gate which led to a narrow bricked corridor, which ultimately led to an open to the sky courtyard. An outside stairway off the courtyard led to a second floor where there were several apartments. I followed my friend up the stairs. Would find out that my friend had been here many times before.
We knocked on the door and Bob let us in. The apartment was dark. It was a single room with a small dirty kitchen off to the right side. As I stood in the doorway scanning the single room, there was an unmade double bed to the left of me. In front of me was a couch and table. The wall had two small doors that opened to a balcony overlooking Royal Street. We made ourselves at home while Bob got the weed out.
Bob struck me immediately as a friendly guy, but in an odd sort of way. He was an old man to me. Anybody over mid thirties was old to me at the time. He was a little shorter than average. He was a stout kind of rough man who was starting to bald. I don't recall his age, but he was in his late thirties or early forties. He seemed different than the older people out in suburbia. He acted younger and liked some of the things that I liked (weed, music and hanging out). I came to find out that Bob was a tugboat captain. He piloted tugs along the Mississippi river.