I love being single!!

I went out Saturday night to an event in a town about 10 miles from me called the “After Harvest Festival”. Yes, it is like the squash festival they show in “Doc Hollywood”. All the small town folks get together and show off their tractors and old cars in a parade while the little barefoot, redneck kids run around in the street chasing melted candy, then they have a beer garden and a big dance. I particularly like the beer garden myself!! The greatest part is that you can bring your own coolers into the park where the dance is and sit around on lawn chairs getting hammered with about 300 other people….good times!
I got the opportunity to play the lifeguard card that night. What is that you say? Well, remember when some of you were young and went to the pool and followed around your favorite hottie lifeguard? In my town, that was me (back in the day). Anyway, while sitting back in my chair chilling with a cold one, I noticed one of the most gorgeous guys I had seen in a while. I said to my hooker friend “OMG, look at that guy”. She told me that was Thomas such and such. I sat there for a while pondering the name and realized he was one of the older pool rats that hung around me. He is only 6 years younger, but when he was 16, that was too young. Now he is 29….BONUS! I didn’t approach him until after the dance when we were at the bar and it was about to close. We walked by him and my friend introduced me. He said “yea, I know who you are”. It was on! He stared right through me with his sexy blue eyes and I knew I would be leaving with him. Don’t start cheering for me getting laid yet, because there is more to the story. My friend hooked up with his friend and we went back to his place. After some perverted conversation between the four of us, Thomas said the phrase to end all phrases…. “I got outta prison 2 months ago”. WTF, shit! Just my luck….the hot guy is flawed….in a big way. Just about anything else would not have been a deal breaker, but that was too much. Who knows where his manhood had been….damn. It was on some drug charges and he is clean now. I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I am just not going there.

I do have a question for you all though. Should it matter who I hang around if I am having fun? I ask this because my friend that I have been going out with lately has a reputation for sleeping around…a lot! In my town….as in other smaller communities, the rumors are horrible. I don’t care so much about that because I am having so much fun, but should I? I imagine in a few weeks I will be considered a big whore too just because we are seen together. Do I let the rumors fly and not worry about it or should I be more careful?