He wasn't the father of a friend, but more like the father of a friend of one of my friends, which was how I got invited to the pool party at his house on a hot day in August of 1972. I never had met him before that day, and never saw him again afterwards, but I got to know him very well that Saturday.
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Mr. Thurman was his name, and back then when you were 19 you didn't call parents and elders by their first names, so I didn't even know what his first name was. He was the father of a girl named Marcia, who was a friend of my friend Brian, and there was a Mrs. Thurman there that day too, a pleasant but mousy looking woman who was quiet and nondescript.
Mr. Thurman was the one that got my attention right from the start. He hung out at the pool with us, and while that didn't usually go over well with us kids, I was willing to make an exception with him, because he really turned me on.
At about 6'1" and maybe a touch over 200 pounds, he was a little taller and heavier than I was, and while he may have been a few pounds overweight, he was in good shape for a guy around 50.
While Mr. Thurman was balding, with a smooth skull on top and only a little on the sides, the rest of him was hairy. Even his back had a pelt of fur covering it, and it was all I could do to keep from running my fingers through that thick coating of mostly black hair on his chest.
It didn't take long for me to notice that while he was pleasant with all of the kids, he seemed to take a liking to me in particular. I did my best to keep him from noticing me checking him out, and besides, the guy was married so I just figured him to be a friendly guy.
Even in his baggy swim trunks I caught a glimpse of the outline of something that Mrs. Thurman was obviously very familiar with, and when wet the bulge was even more noticeable, so I found myself staying in the water more than I wanted because while the bump in my snugger trunks was a lot less obvious, it was still visible.
A couple of hours into the party, the group of about a dozen had scattered around the yard playing Frisbee and swimming, and I found myself alone with Mr. Thurman by the keg of beer.
"Having a good time, Timmy?" Mr. Thurman asked, and when I assured him I was he laughed and put his hand on my neck.
I grimaced at his firm grip, but his touch also made my dick hard, and I saw him glance down at the sad little bulge in my bathing suit.
"Say Timmy, I'd like to show you something," Mr. Thurman said. "You like trains?"
"Sure," I replied, and found myself being led around the side of the house and down the stairs into the basement of the place.
The cellar wasn't a finished basement, and it was dark except for the light that the two small ground level windows facing the backyard allowed in. It was enough light to allow me to see a model train set up in the far side of the room, but when I heard the door close and lock behind me, I began to think that I was down there for another reason.
"I have a knack of being able to sense a lot of things about people," Mr. Thurman said, and when I turned around Mr. Thurman had his back against the door and was smiling at me.
"You work out a lot, don't you?" Mr. Thurman asked me, and when I nodded I looked down and saw that he was stepping out of his swim trunks, making him very naked.
"Couldn't help noticing you looking at it most of the afternoon," Mr. Thurman said with a devilish grin, his right hand giving what had to be close to six inches of flaccid manhood some gentle pulling. "You like what you see?"
I wished that I had gotten to pour the beer I had been heading toward when Mr. Thurman intercepted me, because my mouth was dry. Even if I could have found the words, I'm not sure that I could have managed to get them out at that point.
"Don't you have something you want to show me?" he asked, looking toward my own trunks, probably trying to figure out when the bulge went.
My dick had gone limp from both the shock of the situation and my nerves kicking in, and I wasn't all that eager to show Mr. Thurman my twig and berries anyway, but Mr. Thurman was insistent.
"You know you want to show me, Timmy," Mr. Thurman said. "Show me your cock."
I found myself pulling my soggy swim trunks down, peeling them down and stepping out of them. The clay-like floor was cold on my feet as I closed my eyes and waited for the laughter that I had always feared but had never heard.
Instead, I heard only a deep and long intake of Mr. Thurman's breath being sucked back through his teeth, followed by a barely audible, "Nice."
"Do what I'm doing," Mr. Thurman instructed. "Get your dick hard."
"What about - the party?" I asked.
"Let them have their own fun," Mr. Thurman responded. "Something tells me you like it in the ass, don't you Timmy?"
"What about - you know - Mrs. Thurman?"
"She doesn't like it up the ass," he said with a chuckle. "Says I'm too big for her."
"I mean, what if she comes down here?" I asked, having seen what looked like her ankles walk past the window. "Or somebody else?"
"She won't. She hates my trains and thinks there's spiders down here."
There was a spider down her, I thought. A spider and a fly, and I was firmly in the web.
"You didn't answer my question," Mr. Thurman continued. "Hips or lips? Something tells me you like it in the ass. Am I right?"