Adolescence

The First Blow Job That Wasn’t

A Mistake Barely Avoided

Photo by Iluha Zavaley on Unsplash

I hadn’t thought about this episode from my teenage years until just recently while participating in a Zoom high school reunion with a group of buddies, one of those present reminded me of the incident.

I was probably 14 years old at the time — and just your average horny teenager. Back then, kids my age weren’t having sex like they are now. So everything was about fantasy and circle jerks. Nobody in my crew even had a girlfriend to experiment with.

As with any normal kid, I had lots of friends — all of whom fell under the scrutinizing eye of my exceptionally discriminating mother. Martin was a fresh-mouthed and mostly harmless teen my mother really didn’t like. Foges is now a 74 year-old professor with an MBA and PhD. This is the kid my mama thought was a bad influence.

I had another friend my mother wasn’t crazy for. And I have to admit that she was right about Craig. He really was a bad influence — almost.

Craig was the first to get laid in the crew. His daddy was a plumber. And while on a job helping pops, what would have been a crackhead hooker if there’d been crack back then, approached Craig while his father was absent and for a couple of bucks, gave Craig his first taste of the promised land. The…