December 07, 2004
did you know that old people knew about sex?
I spent this morning folding newsletters for the Vernal Community Association. The people I worked with were all at least forty years older than I am. I sometimes wonder what will happen when they die, and how soon that will be.
One guy talked about his time in Korea. He used to have to drive in mine fields. I'm not sure why, but I know it wasn't for fun. At any rate, he was in some supervisory position and he had a fellow who wasn't terribly bright. This fellow did have an appetite for sex, despite his dimness.
There were prostitutes outside the base and he went to one for some satisfaction. She told him, however, that she was diseased and that for $4 more, she would give him a penecillin injection.
He was a doofus and got the shot.
The next day his upper arm was swollen to the size of the thigh. He went to the hospital area the next day and they discovered that the "penecillin" injection he thought he'd received had been milk of magnesia. The prostitute was known from then on as the Milk of Magnesia Mama.
In honor of this strange (to me) revelation, that no matter how many times it's revealed is still strange, that people have sex. Most people, in fact. Old ones included.
It's so weird.
