"Dominic, we really should finish these." I told my neighbor and new friend.
Dominic Goodhall and I had been working on our boy's karts for the past two weeks. The race was less than fifteen hours away, and to be honest we had spent more time drinking beer and trying to tune the engines than actually doing any real building. My son's chassis was almost ready, but I still hadn't worked out how I was going to mount the engine.
"Right, right." Dominic said, as he filed down the chambers once more.
"Dude!" I laughed, slapping him on the back with an oily rag.
Right at that moment, Dominic's wife, Vanessa, stepped inside. She was a tall brunette who used to be a catalogue model until she had kids. Now she worked for the catalogue itself as a buyer. "You boys need anything else? If not, I'm going to bed."
"No honey, we're good here." Dominic told her, pointing to the fridge in his garage.
"Okay." She grinned. "I'd say don't stay up all night, but from the looks of things, please do stay up all night, or the kids are gonna be distressed."
Dominic waved a hand at her. "It'll be fine."
We continued working, well into the night, even calling time on beers in order to not get too drunk. I finally had the engine frame welded into place, and we both winched it into place. "Hey Dom, I need your help linking the drive train. Put your hand here." I showed him where on the chain, "and pull."
"Sure." He did just that as I linked it on, sliding a greasy hand towards his on the chain. I saw him straining to pull it tighter, as I continued to feed it on. As the final linkage fell into place, my hand slipped and I fell awkwardly onto him, with my hand grabbing his penis through his overalls and my lips landing on his. The only thing which saved this from being truly awkward was the fact our foreheads then collided and we both cried out in pain.
"Jesus, sorry man!" I hissed, rubbing my forehead.
"No problem dude." He replied, himself checking for blood.
As he welded the final pieces to his chassis, I bolted down the rest of the components, and then filled the tank with E85 fuel.
"Let's start her up." I said. I had fitted a flick open covered switch, like on a fighter jet, to start the engine. The kart gave a short whine, before kicking to life. "Wooo!" I cried out, standing for a high-five.
"Bravo Max!" Dom cried out, high-fiving me, then slapping my ass.
I sat in the seat and revved the engine a few times before switching it off. "Dry run tomorrow morning. Now let's get you sorted."
We finished welding the chassis and then maneuvered the engine into place. Once again we struggled with the drive-train, and once again we fell into each other, again with my hand landing on his crotch. This time though, we did not bump heads.
Neither of us said anything about the crotch grabbing, and we continued as if nothing happened. Once done, we went our separate ways, promising to give them a safety test first thing.
The karts were a big success, albeit maybe a tad on the fast side.
Two weeks later
"Max!" Dominic called over to me as I sprayed my garden. "You doing anything tonight?"
"Trudy wanted to watch a movie. Why?" I asked him as he approached.
He shook my hand as he spoke. "I'm having problems with my PC. You're a bit of an expert in those things, so I was wondering if we could take a look together."
"Laptop?" I asked, hoping it was something I could do at my house.
"Desktop."
"Dude, who has a desktop anymore?"
"Hey! I enjoy my games."
"Get a fucking Xbox One man. Anyway, I promised the wife."
"Vanessa wouldn't mind hanging out with Trudy."
I would have to check with Trudy, but she and Vanessa got on like a house on fire, so he was more than happy to ask. "Let me check."
"Sure."
I ran inside and gave Trudy, my gorgeous young blonde wife, the low-down. She grinned and nodded. "Girly night in? Sure! But you need to go out and buy some wine, and you need to arrange for someone to take the kids."
"Deal." I told her, heading out. "We're on, but I need to go buy wine and arrange for a sitter." I told Dominic.
"Nah man, let me do that. I can get some beer and wings in, and my mom can take the kids." Dominic said.
"Okay, sounds like a plan. At seven?"
"Seven it is."
I pressed the switch on the PC, and it did nothing. I checked the plug socket, I checked everywhere, and nothing. Sliding off the side panel of the PC, I saw that none of the LEDs were flashing at all on the motherboard, which meant the PSU was effectively dead. And then I saw why.
"Dom, did you upgrade the GPU?"
"Yeah, about a week ago."
"You have a 300W PSU and you are trying to squeeze way too much out of it. You killed it."
"Ah, fuck. I'll need to go buy a new one."
"Hold on, I have an old 500W one at home." I told him, running home to find it.
A half-hour later, it was up and running, and we were laughing at Youtube videos. Unfortunately, the way his office area was laid out, meant that we were squeezed up against each other, and in our shorts, it effectively meant our bare legs were touching. I don't know why, but that bothered me.
As we continued to drink, our inhibitions dropped. I wasn't sure what was going through Dominic's mind at the time, but he decided it would be funny to look at porn. However, as he was going to type Porntube into the browser, it popped into the URL bar itself, directly pointing to a pre-viewed category of Gay Male.
"Whoa!" He said suddenly. "That is not mine!"
I held my hands up in a non-judgmental manner. "Hey, each to their own. If you like this stuff..."
"I swear, I never."
"Then who did?" I asked him incredulously.
"Had to have been Vanessa." He gasped. "But I never had her pegged for this."
That was a cue for a joke if I ever heard one. "She ever peg you?" I asked, snorting out a laugh.
"What? No!" He scrolled down the videos, looking at the stuff she had been watching. "Fucked up man."
I shrugged. "As I said, each to their own. I don't judge."
He looked at me strangely. "You ever done anything like this?"
"No, but I went to a gay club once with Trudy when we started dating; you know, cause it was the hip thing to do, and I got hit on by a guy. Turned him down and he went away. I love my women way too much to go gay."
With a nod, Dominic agreed. "Yeah, I can't imagine it, but I guess you are right, each to their own." He mused, now watching one of the videos his wife watched, about a straight twink being seduced by an older man. We must've been watching it for about five minutes, before he realized what he was doing. There was no fucking going on, just kissing and fondling. "Fuck, sorry man, I just wanted to see what the fuss was about." And he started to move the mouse to the close 'X' button.