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I am trying to start interesting conversation here, something different...:shrug: Some topics are boring me
This story isn?t really 100% about a bachelor party and boy is it long. I got to typing and well this is what happened.
When I was about 23 years old a friend I went to school with from basically age 5-18 got in touch with me and told me he was getting married. He asked if I would be the best man. :scared
I hadn?t seen this guy but maybe 3 times since graduating high school. I couldn?t figure out why he was asking me, as we were never very close except for coincidentally kept following each other from one school to the next as we grew up.
This was a time in my life when I was drinking, gambling, and basically living a life consumed with debauchery. Working an entry level job out of school that I didn?t really care about, and was basically broke or drunk all the time. Now I wasn?t irresponsible per se, but I was walking the fine line between a respectable life and utter chaos; as only someone that age can justify. It?s no wonder that was about when I started lurking here at MadJacks. :toast:
So along comes this friend, who is basically settling down at a time where the concept is abhorrent to me. He is by far the first of my friends to get married, or hell have a stable relationship that I can remember. Getting married and having a family is somewhat unusual even in your early 20?s in the Bay Area, because everything is so goddamn expensive.
He wants me to do what!? Organize the groomsmen; friends of his from college whom I?ve never met. Meet his fianc? for the first time. Meet her family. Rent a tux, buy a gift, Meet a priest?!? And? organize a bachelor party.
Now most of you guys who hang around the General Forum know that I?m of a certain persuasion. As I?ve only met 1 or 2 of you in person what you may or may not know is that I?m not really much of a dandy. Sure around these parts I?m the queerest guy west of BigGayCapper, but in a crowd of San Francisco homos I get comments dripping with contempt like ?oh, you?re gay? You are doing it wrong? :s8:
So the thought of organizing a bachelor party was not terribly appealing to me. The gays you know from TV, sure they would be all about it. They would be looking forward to being one of the girls and having pillow fights with the strippers. Me, I?m not really attracted to girls, and honestly can find that entire gender an off-putting mystery (no offense to the lovely ladies who frequent madjacks, plus I love my mom).
So the wedding gets closer and I?ve done all the meet and greets, and am feeling almost at ease about the situation. But I still haven?t really planned the bachelor party! The other groomsmen live scattered around California, and I am communicating with them primarily on the phone and E-Mail. They all agree we should get Tom drunk and find him some titties to look at, but none of them can sense my discomfort with the entire thing and take the lead. It?s still in my lap and I am about the fuck it up. And I mean royally. I have no clue what to do. :facepalm:
One thing I slowly get a feel for was why he chose me to begin with. See I knew his parents since I was a little kid, and I went to Catholic school with him all the way through high school. Since he is having a full on religious wedding? in a church, and because I was a former altar boy and familiar with how all that works I suppose he felt like I was the only one who could deal with it. My best guess is, while we weren?t close friends AT ALL I think he felt like I was the best and only bridge between his childhood and his new life as a married adult. I also think he worried picking any one of his newer friends from college over each other would cause a rift amongst them. So he brings in a ringer. Me.
Ok fine, that sort of nostalgia is appealing to me in a way. But, religious wedding AND bachelor party?! Very early on in the process I remind him that I?m gay. I think I had alluded to it years earlier as we wrapped up high school, but since we weren?t very close, we never had ?the talk? that I had with all my other friends at the time. So the tally of who knows about me Groom: check , Priest/Both Families/Groomsmen/Everyone Else: No Way.
Since I am not outwardly extremely gay, I never know whether to volunteer the information or not. I?m not so self-centered (this long winded story aside) that I am going to make some large announcement, and the thought of having to individually tell everyone involved one-by-one seems exhausting and sorta embarrassing.
So the wedding rehearsal and subsequent dinner arrives and the wedding is just a couple days away. I still got nothing prepared. I?ve asked around and learned a bit more than I wanted to know about local Strip Joints, but I still don?t know exactly how to proceed. As the dinner goes on and the wine is flowing I start hearing a few murmurs from some of the guys like ?Ok ImFeklhr, what do you have planned for tonight? What are we going to do? Where the women at?? I also see glares in my direction from the parents on both sides, and the priest is at the dinner too! I?m getting it from both ends. Basically :142hump: vs. :00x11
Dinner is over and suddenly the guys all get up and say ?let?s go!? We all stand up and the bride to be takes me aside and says ?Take care of Tom? please? I say, ?yes? all the while thinking about who is going to take care of me.
Honestly the groom doesn?t seem that concerned about finding strippers, but the rest of the groomsman sure do. As we leave the dinner I say to the group ?hey, so how bout we find a bar and get Tom drunk!?, to which they all respond in unison ?STRIP CLUB!!!!!!? I glance at Tom, he looks back at me with a hint of an apology in his eyes. So I had, as a backup, written down the address of Larry Flynts Hustler Club address and stuffed it in my pocket. I respond to all of them ?Someone get a taxi?
So we arrive at the club in a couple taxis and the boys are jumping around like a pack of horny teenagers.
We go inside and get a drink and the girls start making the rounds. Keep in mind this is my very first time in a strip club and I don?t really have a feel for the protocol. Who do you have to give money to, and when? I don?t know. :shrug:
Amongst the guys with us, only one seems to know exactly what to do and he disappears into a back room in a hurry. We eventually get a lap dance for the groom and he seems satisfied with that. My duty of watching him seems mostly an easy one, as he doesn?t ever make a move for a private session. Frankly I don?t even know what the private sessions entail.
Meanwhile, the whole time we are there, one girl after another comes up to and sits next to me and starts that fake flirting they do. What the hell am I supposed to say? I don?t want to come off as some weirdo who won?t engage them in any flirting. So I try to be polite, and engage in the most rudimentary level of flirting I can muster. That seems enough at first, but eventually they all want to get closer and I have to every friggin time this happens whisper in the ear ?listen, you are very beautiful, but I play for the other team, I?m sorry?. This happens practically a dozen times that night. At first I am mortified, embarrassed and annoyed. Eventually I get drunk enough that it becomes almost a fun game. I start trying to think of clever ways of delivering my ?closing line?
?You are hot, but do you have a brother?? etc.
Well the night starts winding down, no disasters like The Hangover have befallen the groom and I am getting ready to call it a night. But, before my duty is over not one but TWO of the groomsmen emerge from the private booths walking with their tails between their legs over to me. ?Hey, ImFeklhr, I know we just met in person like 4 hours ago, but I over extended my um? I?m a bit short? Do you have any money??
One time the girl literally followed him to the table. So, everyone?s favorite homo has to go to the cash machine and take out $200 he would rather be betting on WNBA halftime lines, and hand it over to a couple pathetic breeders who couldn?t control themselves around all those ?beautiful ladies?.
Boys went home to their lonely hotel rooms, groom went home to his lady, and I made a bee-line to the closest gay bar in the hopes of washing away a night lousy with vaginer with some sweaty man action. :0004
When it?s all said and done this is probably pretty tame for a bachelor party story, but when Hedgie brought up the subject it got me thinking about the one and only bachelor party I have ever been to, and what it meant for me. Thanks for indulging me on my trip down memory lane.