Summer seemed to fly by! But now, we're into Autum, and the temperatures are beginning to fall. Well, we haven't hit any negative-C temperatures yet, but they have been in the single digits at night for the last couple of days. The temperatures dropped to like +4C on Thursday evening (September 22nd, but they hit the upper teens by mid-afternoon. The Weather Network predicts low to mid-single digit temperatures at night pretty much from now on, though we're not expecting really cold negative temperatures until at least mid-December.
I remember growing up in the 60s that Labour Day weekend signified that the shorts come off for the year. When I went to my first day at school for the year, my mother used to go into my bedroom, collect up all my shorts that I had, then she would wash them, then she would put them away, IN HER CLOSET!! According to her, it was wrong to wear shorts after Labour Day, and you weren't allowed to put them on until after June 21st. I lived under that dictatorial rule for too long if you want to know the truth.
I started to rebel in high school when I got a part-time job at a local garage when I was 15. I defied her and began wearing shorts as early as the middle of April and didn't stop wearing them until well after Hallowe'en. My defiance got stronger when I was in college. In my actual second year, I had switched to a more advanced technical program in September of 1973. That September was my sexual awakening. I was 18, though only a couple of months away from my 19th birthday. I had been struggling for years, since I was 13, with my sexuality. I knew I was Gay, but I struggled with keeping my struggle secret, out of fear of being killed, and not just by all the bigots at my high school. My biggest fear was my mother finding out, and she would have cut my head off if she ever did! She did find out eventually, and it wasn't pleasant, especially for me.
Anyway, that September, 1973, as I said, was my real awakening. I met my first boyfriend, Ashley, who was six months older, and the two of us fell in love and we began a hot sexual relationship that would last until he was unfortunately killed in a motor vehicle accident in July of 1987. The one thing about Ashley, other than the fact that he was exceptionally physically beautiful, and like me, Gay, Ashley shaved his legs and had been doing so since he was like 15. Ashley was the person who started me shaving my legs, and I've never had a strand of hair on my legs since! Also back then, we took the word "shorts" at its face value. My shorts back then were usually cut-off jeans and were just a little above about half-way between my knees and my thighs. With shaving my legs, those really short shorts felt oh so sexy! Today, my shorts are the "Chino" style with a 7-inch inseam. Short, but not too short!
Anyway, let me tell you what I wanted to say before I got off track.
I have a philosophy about wearing shorts. In the fall, there has to be five days in a row where the daytime temperature does not rise above +5C (41F) before I will take my shorts off. If the temperature is below 5C for four days, then we get a day where it goes above 5C, the clock resets. I have gone many (Many? Try most!) years where I've worn shorts to a New Year's party! When do they go back on? Again, my philosophy is three days in a row where the temperature goes above that +5C mark. It used to be four days, but for the last couple of years, I decided not to wait that long. My shorts have been on in early March, and never any later than March 21st. With wearing shorts that late, well into December most years, there have been incidents where some self-empowered jerk, usually a right-wing extremist, Christian conservative, who felt he just had to make an ignorant comment. I won't tell you how I respond!
As I said, on Thursday night, the temperature dropped down to +4C. It was still +4 at 7-o'clock when I went to the grocery store. Actually, earlier, when I had my shower, I shaved, not only my face, but also my legs. It was Friday anyway, which is my normal day to give my legs a total shave. I also wore my shorts, but up top, I had on a light tee shirt with a black long-sleeved turtleneck, topped with a navy-blue sweatshirt. When I left at just after 7, it hit me as to the effect of just having shaved my legs and wearing shorts when it's only +4C out. I don't know what it is, but when it's that cool, it feels exceptionally sexy on my legs. The only way it could have felt sexier would be for it to be damp! Cool, damp air on freshly shaved legs feels the sexiest!
The one thing I was expecting was how long would it take for some clown to make a derogatory insult. At the grocery store, there were four other guys shopping, all maybe my age (I'm going to be 68 in less than two months) or older. Three were in shorts, so no insulting comment there!
Then, when I got home and was taking my groceries out of the car, my next-door-neighbour's son, Simon, was coming out to go to school. Simon is a really cute boy. He just turned 16, and he has been openly Gay since he came out to his parents on his 14th birthday. He was wearing his usual white short shorts that he's always wearing. He told me one day that he has 10-pairs of those exact shorts. With his beautiful legs, the shorts show them off perfectly. Seeing as it was so cool, Simon had on a white turtleneck with a dark-blue sweatshirt over it. And of course, he was wearing his baseball hat with a rainbow flag crest on it. He looked deliciously beautiful. We did chat for all of thirty seconds because three of his boyfriends, one of which is his main boyfriend, came up the street and off the went to school. All three were wearing shorts and sweatshirts and baseball caps! The cool weather was no bother for them! I think that teenaged boys are into wearing shorts all year, even the straight ones!
I had several errands to run yesterday morning, including having to go to a mall to exchange some foreign currency. Let's just say I was not the only guy in shorts. I honestly believe we are seeing a trend where guys are going to be wearing shorts 365-days a year! I'm there! I just think a lot more guys should embrace having smooth legs! Why not!
As it stands with me, the clock is ticking, sort of! These really cool nights are not supposed to last, as nighttime temperatures are supposed to go back to the low double-digits for a few days, then back down to low-to-mid-single digits next week (the end of September). Like I said, it will take five straight days of the day time temperature to be BELOW +5C before I change into my jeans. If the trend that has been common for the last 10-years continues, where we don't get hit with super-cold temperatures until after Christmas, I should still be wearing shorts On New Year's Eve.
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