This story begins when I was just out of the US Army, I was 21 looking for a job and was in pretty good shape physically and mentally, never considered myself handsome but I wasn't bad to look at, could hold a conversation and was very athletic.
While I was looking for a permanent full time job, I worked for a local arena, just helping out with people coming in to do sports and shows, so I got to meet a lot of interesting people.
One group I met was an Ice Skating show that went around the world performing, I got to work with them pretty closely. I knew they changed quite often so I got some addresses from them in case I was where they were later in life.
I had heard stories about these shows when I was younger but that wasn't unusual, so never even thought about it now. I considered myself a bisexual male because I had sexual encounters with both men and women and found them both very enjoyable. Occasionally while working here a couple of the guys would make little remarks which I just let go.
On this day I was leaving for the day when one of the guys, a French Canadian, came up with me with a very strong accent and asked if I played poker, I said yes and he said they needed a fill in for another person and asked if I would like to play, first things I asked was how much did they play for, he told me it was nickle, dime and quarter with an occasional dollar game. I figured I could afford that so I agreed to play.
They played at a local hotel, so I got there early went to the bar and had a drink and was just observing when the guy came over and said that I was early, I told him I was not a person who came late and so I just thought I would have a drink, he nodded and asked me to join him and one of the other guys who played and I said sure.
We chatted and had a couple of drinks, now I was only 21 and I took these guys to be in there 30s, found out one guy was 38 and other was 43, surprised me because they did not show their age, I didn't either and why I always got carded at a bar. After about 20 minutes another guy showed up and we headed up to the persons room.