Hmm, is it just me or convenient opportunities keep knocking on my door? And that I can't resist opening it? While we're on the topic of butts, this reminds me of another war story I have to share.
*takes out a cigarette and lights it*
(Warning: This story contains partial adult content and may not be suitable for some readers. If you may find this kind of content offensive, please ignore the rest of this post.)
Gather around once again, my friends.
It was 1988. I was 4 years old. Still innocent. Still cute. Still young. (You're probably asking, what the hell happened now? I wish I knew. Those days are over.) It was a cold November night, and it was around close to 1AM in the morning. I had been tucked to sleep by my mother a few hours prior, but something caused me to wake up. It turned out I had to pee. My bladder was full to the brim, and I was about to burst something fierce if I didn't use the potty. The burning sensation (not THAT kind of burning sensation; I mean the pressurized kind) was tearing through my lower groin like a hot knife through butter. Or perhaps to be more thorough, an experienced porno actor entering a virgin amateur on their first video shoot.
I had to go to the bathroom BAD, to the point where if I didn't go I was bound to wet the bed in a massive ocean of mellow yellow (quite rightly). But there was just one problem that prevented me from doing so.
I had woken up in time and to my absolute sheer horror, to the cringing sounds of my parents... well, having sex. It wasn't the kind of sex that normal couples have, it was the kind of sex where it was "Keep-your-moans-low-enough-so-that-the-kids-can't-hear-us-even-though-we're-not-doing-a-very-good-job-of-it". We lived in a small apartment with two separate beds in the living room at the time, so even with the TV on at a low volume, and with my fox-like-hearing, it wasn't exactly difficult to discern what was happening.
With the covers pulled over my head, I was frozen in a cocoon-like state of horror, mortification, and national intrigue at the same time. Here I was, curled into the fetal position trapped within the warmth of my blanket, my bladder nearly about to bust open like an untreated diseased sore on a street corner hooker, and the nauseating sounds of repeating love making, and I could hear my father saying "Shh!" every five seconds. I was in a dilly of a pickle, trapped between a rock (almost typed cock) and a hard place, you could say.
(That pun was intentional).
What was I ever to do? If I chose to pretend that I was still asleep, surely I'd have wet the bed. I couldn't just casually get up and use the bathroom while my parents were doing the deed because that would've caused a most awkward situation that nobody would've lived down for years to come. So after pondering on my escape plan for at least ten minutes, my bladder hitting its limit, I came up with the only plausible performance.
I let out a long and fake yawn, loud enough to cause a disturbance in the room.
Suddenly the sickening noises stopped. My ears perked up, and I knew that was my cue. I decided to let out another fake yawn to reconfirm to my mom and dad I was indeed, awake and ready to urinate. If I didn't get the bathroom a moment sooner, well, let's just say I would've released enough liquid to make R. Kelly's stream look like a mere trickle in comparison. I decided to wait about a moment for my parents to realize that I was up and awake, in order to give them a reprieve. I thought maybe they wouldn't notice that I didn't notice them noticing that I noticed they were in the same bed, and to put them on notice on my waking up that I noticed I had to use the bathroom.
As soon as I rose up from the covers, I slowly opened my eyes just in time to see the massive, man-shaped blur that was father suddenly dash toward the bed that I was sleeping on. I was damned horrified to see a quick nude blur take a diving leap towards the bed, and even more traumatized to see the flash of my father's bare buttocks fly right my face as he crashed onto the bed and under his own blanket, his weight nearly breaking the entire frame of the bed from his sudden near somersault. I swear if I didn't know it any better he nearly did a handstand in order to get the bed so fast, so he thought I wouldn't realize what was going on. Oh, but I knew. And his pathetic cover up? Even more painfully obvious to any sleepy and untrained eye.
"GO TO BED, SON!!! YOU'RE HAVING A NIGHTMARE!" My dad exasperated out of nowhere, as he wrapped himself in his own bedsheets, while sounding out of breath. I was trying so hard not to laugh for some reason, only because I knew that was a bold faced lie, but at the same time, it was the truth.
My dad was lying to me to cover up an adult situation from me as a lie, but the truth was, from a technical standpoint, it was a nightmare for me to witness and have heard. Either way, I was determined to let loose and I didn't really want to spend the night soaked in my own urine.
"Dad, I just woke up - I really have to use the bathroom!" I said in my tinny 4 year old voice, and of course - my mummified father didn't move an inch from within the darkness, he just told me to get up and go use it. I stumbled around off the bed and dashed to the bathroom, still letting out groggy noises as to trick my parents into thinking I was clueless as to what was going on. Several minutes later, I came back into the living room, my dad having shut the TV off and the radio on, and I climbed back into the bed to go back to sleep. Sadly, my mental trauma prevented me from doing so, and thankfully, my dad didn't try to initiate anything further with my mom for the rest of the night (or many years after that).
For the next couple of years until I finished elementary school would I continue to have actual brief nightmares of seeing a hairy, saggy 40 something year old butt flashing before my eyes before hearing a loud diving thud. It was a never ending lullaby - butt, thud, butt, thud, butt, thud. Flash of the butt, followed by the diving thud. I'd literally wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, screaming while having heart palpitations. It was torturous beyond belief, and no amount of therapy could've hoped to cure it.
So what's the moral of this story? There is none. I just pray that if you've been a kid at some point in your life and you've heard your folks pounding the pork (or even worse, you're grandfolks jerking the jerky), you learned not to say a damn thing and pretend you were asleep the entire time.
Until next time, my friends...