Feeling Young − 29 April, 2008

In his mid-fifties he decided to buy a brand new car. Black Mustang. Convertible. It made him feel like he was "king of the world". Faster, successful.

He then added a scooter, then a bigger motorcycle. Maybe the chicks would dig him. He started going to the tanning salon, he pierced one of his ears, he started dressing all in black and shaved his head. He thought he looked quite dashing. He didn't know women thought more of him as a fool. He looked like a pirate and not the Johnny Depp kind.

He walked around like a peacock thinking of himself as younger and sexier. "Here goes another fiftyish man in want of youth" would say a receptionist. He was nice enough she thought, just delirious if he thought all of it would get him more women.

All the while he felt younger. He said so anyway.

He couldn't however take a bigger motorcycle because it was too heavy. Couldn't take a sporty one because it hurt his knees and back. And travelling in his car, however comfortable it was, he still had to stop every hour to pee because of his prostate. He still wore his shirts tucked in his pants and he grunted when he sat down and got up.

He somehow attracted the attention of a younger girl half his age. It was great, he thought. She was beautiful, had smooth skin, was funny...and wanted more sex than he could give. Which is the reason she decided to stray. Even if he was nice, he couldn't quite "perform" like she wanted him to and it did feel weird to be with someone people clearly thought was her dad.

He knew she slept around but did nothing about it because being with her made him feel...worthy.

Then he got his first sexually transmitted infection. The first one EVER. And it wasn't curable easily. He was mad but, hey She was so young, so sexy.

Then she got pregnant and he knew it couldn't be his...he was shooting blanks since the 80s. So he let her go.

He then sold his car and his scooter. Exchanged his motorcycle for a smaller one. Stopped going to the tanning salons, took off the earring...strated to take his meds for his prostate and his STI.

That's when he met Her. Clearly she had wanted desperately to appear half her own age and made lots of effort by wearing too much makeup, leather pants and 4 inch heels. But she was a biker chick. It made him feel vulnerable to be with a woman her age...his age. But he finally could act his age...going to be earlier, taking Metamucil, planning trips to Florida and Cuba.

The had a wedding their feet in the sand in Miami and a parade of motorcycles afterward. Secind marriage for him, third for her. They bought a condo in Florida, near the beach, and a Cocker Spaniel to be the kid they would never have.

Posted on April 29, 2008. and has been viewed 31 times.