"Confessions from a video arcade booth"
For those of you that don't know what a "video arcade" is... here is a brief description. These places are disgusting... Married and gay men go there to view porn in this filthy boothes... In the boothes there are holes cut out that access the booth beside you... let your imagination run wild... anything you can imagine can happen in that hole! And honey... everything but Alice has been in that hole!
This story goes waaaaaaaaaaay back to 1995. I was in college and hanging out w/ a group of friends. One couple, Jen and Tony, and Lisanne. Tony didn't hang out with us too much... But Jen, Lisanne and I had some great times together.
On one occasion when Tony was going out with us, we all met up prior to going out, and we went to dinner... We had so much fun that evening... but we could all sense some weirdness with Tony. Couldn't quite put our finger on it... but knew something was off with him.
The next day we are hanging out at Lisanne's house, just sitting around, talking... Lisanne looks and Jen and says, "I think Tony is gay and likes Steven!" Jen and I started laughing... How could she think this? He, at this point, gave us no clue that he was interested in me, or any men.
Over the course of the next few weeks, Jen took notice and studied Tony under a microscope... She investigated his every move. She started putting 2 and 2 together and saw where Lisanne might think what she did about Tony. Tony seemed to be way too caught up on himself, fashion, picking out and matching clothes for Jen, getting manicures and pedicures... but the icing on the cake, at this point... was a friend of his, Barry. Tony was always going over to spend time with him, or going on day trips and such...
Lisanne had found out that Barry had recently come out. Once she told Jen, she confronted Tony with the information. Tony simply stated that they went to school together and had always been friends... newsflash, they didn't go to the same school... (this doesn't mean they wouldn't know each other, but they didn't.)
A couple of weeks went by, and Tony started asking to hang out with me... alone... Um.. so.. yeah, I don't think so... but Jen asked if I would... for her, so she could have her "peace of mind". I hesitantly agreed to do so. So Tony invited me to go to Raleigh with him, and look at cars, and then he wanted to take me to his favorite restaurant... Olive Garden... barf!
Day of trip... I was so nervous... I didn't want to be in the car alone with this guy for the ride. I had no idea what to talk about... how to start conversation... Oh... How's your gay friend? LOL yeah, right... I'm sure that would have gone over well... So I just remained quiet until he said something.
Once in Raleigh, we went to the dealership and looked at this vehicle that he was interested in... Why we went ALL THE WAY to Raleigh, when they had the same vehicle in Greenville... I'll never know... I guess it was because he wanted Olive Garden... LOL
So we finished looking at cars... and Tony said he wanted to take me to another place he usually went when he came to Raleigh... Ok, I didn't sign on for this... I signed up for car and dinner... and that's it... extra stops mean... someone owes me big time! LOL what was about to happen, is not what I mean by collecting either... UGH!
We pull into this sketchy parking lot that is half guarded by fencing... there are quite a few cars here... The building is small and old looking, like a tiny doublewide trailer house.
Tony invited me in the building... I had no idea where we were, or what type of place we were in, until he opened the door... Naked posters and porn cases surrounded the entrance... and as we continued in, we entered a room filled with dildos vibrators and enough toys to make a nymph's head explode! I looked at Tony with a most disapproving look, and asked, what kind of place is this, and why did you bring me here? He said, "It's special and I wanted to show you a good time" Um... yeah, what I was about to see... was not a good time, at all... and scarred me for a while.
Tony escorted me to the back section of the building... very dark and even more sketchy than the parking lot. You could barely see where to walk. Tony opened a "booth" door for me, and there was a glowing light, from a tv... he handed me some coins, and said, put these in the machine and watch. I didn't know any better at the time... so shut the door, popped a coin in, and BAM! Instant porn. I was so embarrassed. I could feel my face turning all shades of red, when out of know where, a PENIS popped through a hole in the wall beside me. I wanted to scream, but threw the door open, and stormed out of the building, back into the parking lot. Several minutes, maybe 20-30, Tony finally came back out... I guess he knew what to do when the penis came thru the hole, or he had put his in the hole of another "booth".
So back in the car... I can still feel the heat on my face, from the embarrassment... and I say absolutely nothing... Tony asks, "where did you want to eat?" What? I thought you brought me up to Raleigh to see a car, and eat at Olive Garden.... not to see cars, have dick shoved in my face as some nasty place, and then be asked where I want to eat... So I responded, "I don't care..." And he pulled into the Burger King parking lot... WTF?
Upon our return to Greenville... Lisanne and Jen both had a hard time believing the story, but when I gave them the name of the place we went... they called for themselves... Jen finally broke up w/ Tony, and Tony still lives a lie... dating a "man" who is really a woman, but he tells different people different things...
WOW!!!!
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