This has been going on for a long, long time. Have you ever stopped at a rest area and found it completely empty? There’s always one man there, in his car, waiting to meet someone new. In the winter, men trudge through snow to be with each other, in the summer, men leave the woods with ticks clinging to their legs. I’m one of those men, I’ve done it a hundred times we go into the woods or a truck with tinted windows, in a stall under cold light. If you’ve ever pulled over to a rest area, you’ve been near men having sex. Time started again and I ran out of the bathroom. We would have stayed there forever, but another man came in and saw what was happening and scowled. I was electrified, but held to that spot he shook himself at me and I couldn’t move. He was tall and homely, and holding himself. At the urinal, there was a man next to me.
On the way to Maine with my mom and stepfather, we pulled off the highway and into a rest area. I was 15 the first time I found out that men have sex in public.
