For the first 44 years of my life, I neither had, nor had considered any sexual liaisons with anyone of the same sex.
This was until the following took place:
Just to give you an idea of me, I am a tall slim (but not skinny) man, with short brown hair and blue eyes. I was in the car with my wife travelling to a music festival, we were having a row. I won't bore you with what it was about (as it's not particularly relevant) but it was getting quite heated and my wife's driving was becoming more erratic. Behind us, her sister was following in her Mini. We ended up pulling off at a service area where the row escalated once my sister-in-law got involved! The end result was my wife packing her things into her sisters car, and heading off back home! I was certainly not going to miss this festival after so much anticipation for it, so continued on.
After parking up at the festival site and queuing for the best part of 4 hours I was finally inside. After carrying a mules load of festival paraphernalia I finally collapsed with my tent in the first available space and cracked open a beer.
Once the beer had worked its magic, I proceeded to set up camp. It wasn't long before I was chatting to the surrounding festival goers and feeling at home. Being a dance music festival, the attendees were pretty much half my age, but that has never bothered me.
As is always the case I was itching to get down to the main site and see what was going on. It was around 7pm as I got into the main arena. As I was wandering along deciding which direction to take, I came face to face with a guy selling hash truffles. He was about my height (6'2), slim athletic build with short blonde hair and green eyes. I reckon he was early 20's. He had a big beaming smile and asked if I wanted to buy one of his truffles (they were Β£2 each).
As I said before I had never had any gay feelings but I found an unusual feeling in the presence of this guy.
I felt the way I have always been when in the company of a woman I've fancied, aware of it and conscious of not wanting to make it too obvious. It was weird! Anyway, as I was still feeling rebellious after my earlier row, I decided to buy one of his truffles (my wife wouldn't have approved) and chatted to him a little whilst eating it.
He'd eaten one himself whilst chatting and as he walked away to continue his sales, I saw him pop another one into his mouth. "He's going to be mashed later if he carries on at that rate" I said to myself.
After a further wander, I got the munchies, found some food and then started a nights partying. I had a brilliant night.
I think being as old as some of my fellow party goers parents made me a bit of a novelty and I was never without someone to talk to. I'd been chatting and dancing with a group of girls, and although the thought had gone through my mind of ending up with one of them in my tent, I knew the reality of that happening to me now was probably slim! Also I had never (until later) been unfaithful in any way.
At around 3am I'd pretty much had enough and decided to head back to my tent. I said goodnight to the lovely ladies and headed back.
About half way up the hill ahead of me, I saw a group of lads messing around on the ground and taking photos.
As I got nearer I could see it was Truffle boy from earlier. Not surprisingly he was wasted.