"...Are you gay?"

Hey there everyone, I just got back from a carshow that I went to with my dad.

Its really the first time I've been to one of those in over a year. Usually me and my dad load up in our old car, go over to a friends house, pick them up in their old car and go to the show. At the show we'll usually eat and look at all the cars until trophies are handed out, and then we go back to the friends house and I play games with his son.

Anyway, we roll up to the friend's (whom we call Chowder) home and its all good. I see all the new additions he's done to his house in the past year, and he comments about how I've become a "Man". Only if he knew xD. My hair has really grown in the last year or so, and it sorta caught him off guard. It was humorous.

I've been going to this house for probably 12 years now in a similar sort of tradition. Regardless, before we go to the carshow, I'd play videogames. Usually with Chowder's son, Ben, but when he's not there I usually just play by myself as my dad and Chowder catch up.

The main reason why I went this evening was because Ben just graduated from Highschool and I wanted to congratulate him. When I get there he's been playing this other game for a bit, and I let him play while I doodle. Eventually we pop in Wiisports, wherein this happy tune begins. He comments "I know, really gay tune..." I was like "o.O? I wouldn't say that..." As it turns out he thought I would think it was gay, and somehow have a problem with it. I, of course, didn't.

So we play bowling and eventually go to the carshow.

The carshow, as it turns out, was at Hooters.... oh fun ^_^;. The entire time I'm in the restaurant I pay no attention to the women, and either do origami or watch Wheel of Fortune while the three men at my table just go nuts over the boobs and whatnot. Chowder downed a dozen oysters and a dozen wings... I donno how he does it.

Anywho, I think Ben sort of noticed that I was wiggling my hips a bit more or not really watching the women in Hooters... He asks "... Are you gay?" while my head was turned, and I wanted to see if I heard him correctly, and I asked "What did you say?" which he replied "Oh, sorry, it was a question which I shouldn't have asked, forget I said anything" and that was that.

It was overly interesting but tickled me to the bone. If you had asked me that two years ago I would have gotten really defensive. A year ago I would have gotten really nervous and attempted to dismiss it. Asking me that now sort of shows how comfortable I've gotten with myself... it shows that I'm no longer a "Manly man" from a year ago or so- to me it seems like I've femmed up quite a bit. You know, someone who is effeminate enough to be classified as gay. Heh... it made sense to me.


The evening went by pretty uneventful from there... I went over to Books-a-million where I bought Gullivar's Travels, Moll Flanders, and The Illiad for my plane flight in a week. All of the books were only $4 each! What a deal! :D