VFUR Parties
In summation: VFUR parties OWN. VFUR is the local group of Furries I've been hanging out and partying with the last few weeks, and the entire reason I have a social life again.
So anyways Saturday was the final night of the Celebration of Light fireworks, and the whole lot of us decided to celebrate and see it as a group. So the post as follows describes that night and Sunday, where there was the gay Pride Parade, in itself an adventure.
So Saturday I got up at noon, did my normal wakeup routine then went shopping to get stuff to take, got about $19 worth of groceries, juice, deli meat, and buns and made a collection of ham and mustard, and chicken and mayo sandwiches to take, along with fruit salad. Turned out to be just enough even with all the other food brought, as only one sandwich returned with me.
Left at about 1:30 thinking since I didn't know exactly where to go save for Translink routing which involved some walking distance it'd take me an hour minimum to get there. Turns out I timed everything so perfectly that I made it there in 30 minutes even, instead of Translink's suggested 46 minutes not including walking time. So I was way early and had an very tasty Banana Mango smoothie from Starbucks o_o;. Something good to actually order at Starbucks in future. People started to show up at around 3pm even though we were only meeting up at 3:45 officially. Yakked with people including Acco who invited me to the VFUR group for a bit, as more showed up; then ended up doing Reno's paid job for him by handing out more than half of the fliers he had to hand out all night in the span of five minutes; mostly because he was way too timid to actually stop people and get them to take a flier, forget about actually look at the flier.
Eventually after Sasha, the resident teen giant (seriously the guy is 6'10 and barely 16) pitched at like 5:15pm we all trundled down to the beach and started taking up space, hogging a large chunk of prime spot for ourselves to watch from as people slowly pitched up all night long. People yakked, ate, showed off con badges, swapped stories, drew, played a radio, and surfed the web after stealing bandwidth from a local hotel with Wi-fi. We had KFC, several cold pizzas, my sandwiches, a half dozen bags of chips, 3 cases of pop, a variety of sweet buns, and curry dumpling from some Chinese place, Pocky by the gobful, somebody else with PB&Wildberry jam sandwiches, and god knows what else we scoffed, food for all 23 of us hogging beach space. Most of which got eaten between there and the after party at Marzi's place.
I spent most of the night while watching fireworks cuddling Sairys, the fur I'm currently dating and using him as a pillow/backrest, while every fur with artistic talent jumped at the chance to draw on me with permanent markers again xD. Met a whole bunch of new people even though I only know the names of a few like Marzipan, Reno, Sushi (yes we call him sushi), Red, Lenare, Spooge (eww so dirty), Brie, Rainrat (our resident photographer), Yotie and Yotie's bf whose name I can't remember now.
Turns out it was a good thing our group went, and we were welcomed with open arms by police and volunteer coordinators. We had about $100 worth of glow-sticks which made us easy to spot, and were readily loaned to people needing help or light throughout the night for various things; and Yotie's BF had a walkie-talkie radio thing tuned in to the local volunteer group's frequency; so when some kid left unsupervised ATE his glow-stick and started vomiting the glowing chemicals (which btw still glow even after ingestion and partial digestion) we were able to radio in and get first-aid people to the kid pronto. Kudos to us :)
So sometime after the fireworks ended we cleaned up and trooped out towards Marzipan's place (which I had thought would be much closer than it is, but ended up being all the way down by Stadium station, through some of the seedier areas including the western edge of "East Van" which is supposed to be notorious for it's homeless and druggie problem) when the crowds were a little thinner. Turns out none of the group have much in terms of leadership skills and the group of people heading back to Marzipan's (17 of us) got split into three during the course of the trip back, and had everybody worried and phoning each other trying to find out who was where and how they got lost. Not fun, but EVENTUALLY we all got back to Marzipan's place, the one group actually beating the group I was with, which included Marzipan himself, back to Marzi's place. We yakked around and such for a little bit and got snacks from a 7-eleven as people one by one crashed, with me and Sairys being some of the last people to go to bed, and thus having trouble finding floor space. Also watched a few people play games on Marzi's computer and was exposed to some of Marzi's collection of furry porn, which was... interesting to say the least.
Also ended up wrestling with the token bodybuilder fur for the event, can't recall his name, about 180lbs, worked out every second day bench presses about 200. And had another stalemate after I just sucked my gut in and dropped to the floor right out of his back hold, then floor wrestled a bit until I wrapped my legs around his neck and managed to pull off a Sonya style (Mortal Kombat I) leg-grab and flip him using my legs with my hands on the ground as support.
So then Sairys and me finally found some space in one room to sleep together under my blanket with only two other guys in the room, Dustin (a 17 year old non-fur who's come to scope us out and possibly join; and Spooge). Well turned out after cuddling some Sairys woke up and couldn't get back to sleep, while I couldn't get to sleep at all. So we did what else two people sharing a bed do besides sleep. We had sex. Yes, in a house party full of 17 people, most of whom were asleep. This is where the story takes a funny turn.
Graphic: Well Sairys is to say the least horny as hell, and by the time I had gotten the idea that he wanted to fool around he'd already came in his underwear once, and a second time when I had barely even started manhandling his penis. Not being able to get off myself and not finding much enjoyment so far I convinced Sairys to get a condom and do the part I'd never experienced. Only problem is when he leaned over Dustin to get his wallet which had a condom he managed to drop his wallet and get the condom stuck under Dustin's foot. When I asked what Sairys was doing taking so long he said he had a problem, so I leaned over butt naked showing my ass to a sleeping Spooge, and managed to wriggle the condom and wallet which had stuck to the floor due to the Velcro, free from Dustin's foot WITHOUT waking Dustin. Some short moments later Sairys has it on, and I end up doing most of the work myself, getting him in. Umm, ow, bad idea. Despite his stories I don't think Sairys has had much sexual experience, as he brought only ONE UNLUBRICATED condom and NO KY.
So, umm ow, the first time I tried to get him in I whisper-swore and bite down on my arm through the blanket to not scream. Being me however, I tried again, and knowing what to expect got him all the way in and managed to do it without any lubrication as I lost my anal virginity to a guy who at least had decent sized equipment. After that and him popping out after the deed was done, leaving my rump pretty sore till about noon the next day, eh was kinda worn out and I had to do all the work getting myself off. Alas, somehow I expected this; but at least Sairys is trainable and more than willing. And despite the pain I enjoyed the experience, and want to have another go at it. WAAAY better than the times I had sex with Ashley back in high-school, I still feel dirty remembering those. I'd say it's good evidence that I'm very much gay.
Despite all this we managed to do it so quietly that not a soul awoke or heard us, not even poor Dustin. After Sairys passed out again I still couldn't sleep, so I got up at around 6am, after Spooge woke up and was the first to get up and start making noise. Had a single coke to get some caffeine into my system, even though I'm trying to cut pop out of my diet, and am down to my third in an entire month. Yakked as people slowly woke up, and yakked to them cutting crude jokes and whispering to Sairys who was still giddy about the whole thing, and thinks I'm equipped like a damn rhino. After some jokes about Acco and whoever Acco had been cuddling during the night (turns out despite multiple people being dating partners and cuddling each other over the night, I was the only one to get any action, not even Marzi who had a locked bedroom with two people including Reno his BF sharing his bed), as they both played fox furs, which are supposedly "walking cock warmers"; which had me mess up half asleep a very bad joke:
"Well you know what they say about foxes right? Cocks are only good fox warmers", and then burst out laughing until a rolled up sleeping bag was tossed at me by a guy(the same one I wrestled) who had been sleeping and using the sleeping bag as a pillow, xD. At some point after this before we left m being me I ended up telling Dustin what had happened. The poor kid's a virgin and was in absolute shock that he slept through two guys screwing and one having to bite down to not scream. And Dustin was thusly going on the whole day: "WHILE. I. WAS. SLEEPING!", to some people's annoyance, even though I found i priceless. Honestly I think he was only jealous because he didn't get to watch or join in xDD
At about 8am most of us trundled off to a Ricky's for breakfast, Waffles with strawberries and whipped cream for me, nummy. And a whole pot of tea for caffeine. Then went down and got to our little spot for the parade at bout 10:30 just before Marzi, found Lenare who hadn't gone to Marzi's place waiting for us. She let me borrow her sunscreen so I could sit around shirtless and tan, much to a large number of people's pleasure, including Sairys's <3. At about noon after some confusion due to a very confused volunteer who took a golf cart THROUGH oncoming traffic to tell us that the parade would be down pacific street, not Beach street (hello we were ON Pacific street, and all knew this, ready to camp out and watch). The parade eventually got to us at about 12:45pm, after we'd watched a Lesbian biker gang called the Bulldaggers come along celebrating two of their member's wedding, riding around in circles down the road, and honking plenty. Also bring a small entourage of family with them which had two token guys riding around on a tiny little yellow moped wearing nothing but kilts (some of the lesbian bikers wore even less such as just electrical tape over their nipples and show all underwear) and a granny on another moped with a cape of the gay pride flag.
The parade came by and was awesome, and it got really hot, unsure exactly how bad but lots of paraders had water-pistols and such cooling off the crowd as they strutted their stuff, some of which was rather enjoyable to watch <3. Since local emergency services have being having REALLY bad rep they had parade things go by two, trying to win over community support, since there were only about 400,000 people watching the parade. This included a fire engine which *hosed* sections of the crowd down, but it got so hot that ten minutes later we could see the steam rise off the road where there had been water and dry out. Unfortunately I have no pictures of my own, but will later edit this if I can get hold of some of Rainrat, or other people's pictures . Managed to recognize several people during the parade including Ryan whom I know from "the Center", which is a support group place for LGBT (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender). As well as a few of the people from VFUR parading in support of different groups.
The parade was long and finally finished passing us at about 3:30pm, however things for Sairys took a turn for the bad here. See Sairys was supposed to work Sunday at 3:30, and had planned to call in sick, but just as the manager was answering when he was trying to do so, from a little distance away from the parade, somebody noticed him and came up to him yelling, so Sairys being the poor liar he is had to try and make up another excuse. No go. So after sticking around a little after the parade Sairys had to leave about 4pm to go all the way down to Surrey to work, leaving me with the rest of the group who hadn't trundled off :P.
Turns out I have all the leadership skills at this point as I managed to herd all the scatted people to a central shady location to setup a base where people could return to and have their stuff watched as they trundled off to snack and see the festival/vendors selling stuff on parade day. Takes me 30 seconds to do what everybody else in the group couldn't do Saturday night in over an hour O_o;, I has natural 18 Charisma? So after half of the people had returned 7 of us went off back to a restaurant near Marzi's place, by bus this time instead of walking, where our waiter turned out to be a parade participant and recognized me before anybody recognized him. If everything else didn't say I had high charisma, being a face you can remember out of a crowd of 400,000 people despite a lack of any major distinguishing features like tattoos or scars, is a definite statement.
Ended up having vegetable Manicotti and Strawberry Banana smoothies as the rest of the group showed up occupying a large chunk of restaurant with a 17 person table, keeping our poor waiter rather busy (we all tipped pretty well, I even tipped $5 for an under $20 meal), and passing on the ice cream he'd recommended and got everyone which was some interesting blend of chocolate, mint and French vanilla. Gave mine to somebody else but still paid for it. After we had paid and stuff most people went their separate ways, except for me, Lenare and Marzi who all went back to Marzi's place where we found Reno and Mikau had managed to let themselves in through the balcony, ON THE FIFTH FLOOR of the apartment/townhouse complex (actually 4th since there is no 4th floor and it's considered unlucky in China? Construction must have been by Chinese people), somehow. Scary. o_o.
Said goodbye to Lenare, and promised to get a hold of her so she could travel with Sairys to next week's part; grabbed by stuff and took the Skytrain off with Mikau. Turns out Mikau has Aspergers and gets disability for it, talks non-stop enough to be believable, and I don't think he did realize when he may have rubbed people the wrong way, although all of VFUR despite their personal drama-fests are pretty easy going and hard to offend. Finally got home at around 8:30pm having been gone 31 hours partying. Told my folks I'd been down to the parade, even showed them the bright pink "Drama Queen" t-shirt I'd got for free from the parade. Which resulted in some questions about whether the friends I was partying with were gay, told them a fair number were. No further comment.
Robin (brother) phoned a little later, turns out while he was out partying elsewhere he'd managed to get his bike stolen JUST after me and Dad had got him this fancy $200 bike helmet that he'd wanted for his birthday :( . While mom was downstairs playing games she popped the inevitable question of "have you decided to join their (gay people) ranks?", which I avoided by remarking "I never knew they had *ranks*", which he stammered and tried to say didn't mean that way. So maybe they do know I'm gay, maybe they don't. I'm not exactly making it difficult to figure out.
Took a shower, then crashed ending my adventure of wacky hijinks for the weekend.
So anyways Saturday was the final night of the Celebration of Light fireworks, and the whole lot of us decided to celebrate and see it as a group. So the post as follows describes that night and Sunday, where there was the gay Pride Parade, in itself an adventure.
So Saturday I got up at noon, did my normal wakeup routine then went shopping to get stuff to take, got about $19 worth of groceries, juice, deli meat, and buns and made a collection of ham and mustard, and chicken and mayo sandwiches to take, along with fruit salad. Turned out to be just enough even with all the other food brought, as only one sandwich returned with me.
Left at about 1:30 thinking since I didn't know exactly where to go save for Translink routing which involved some walking distance it'd take me an hour minimum to get there. Turns out I timed everything so perfectly that I made it there in 30 minutes even, instead of Translink's suggested 46 minutes not including walking time. So I was way early and had an very tasty Banana Mango smoothie from Starbucks o_o;. Something good to actually order at Starbucks in future. People started to show up at around 3pm even though we were only meeting up at 3:45 officially. Yakked with people including Acco who invited me to the VFUR group for a bit, as more showed up; then ended up doing Reno's paid job for him by handing out more than half of the fliers he had to hand out all night in the span of five minutes; mostly because he was way too timid to actually stop people and get them to take a flier, forget about actually look at the flier.
Eventually after Sasha, the resident teen giant (seriously the guy is 6'10 and barely 16) pitched at like 5:15pm we all trundled down to the beach and started taking up space, hogging a large chunk of prime spot for ourselves to watch from as people slowly pitched up all night long. People yakked, ate, showed off con badges, swapped stories, drew, played a radio, and surfed the web after stealing bandwidth from a local hotel with Wi-fi. We had KFC, several cold pizzas, my sandwiches, a half dozen bags of chips, 3 cases of pop, a variety of sweet buns, and curry dumpling from some Chinese place, Pocky by the gobful, somebody else with PB&Wildberry jam sandwiches, and god knows what else we scoffed, food for all 23 of us hogging beach space. Most of which got eaten between there and the after party at Marzi's place.
I spent most of the night while watching fireworks cuddling Sairys, the fur I'm currently dating and using him as a pillow/backrest, while every fur with artistic talent jumped at the chance to draw on me with permanent markers again xD. Met a whole bunch of new people even though I only know the names of a few like Marzipan, Reno, Sushi (yes we call him sushi), Red, Lenare, Spooge (eww so dirty), Brie, Rainrat (our resident photographer), Yotie and Yotie's bf whose name I can't remember now.
Turns out it was a good thing our group went, and we were welcomed with open arms by police and volunteer coordinators. We had about $100 worth of glow-sticks which made us easy to spot, and were readily loaned to people needing help or light throughout the night for various things; and Yotie's BF had a walkie-talkie radio thing tuned in to the local volunteer group's frequency; so when some kid left unsupervised ATE his glow-stick and started vomiting the glowing chemicals (which btw still glow even after ingestion and partial digestion) we were able to radio in and get first-aid people to the kid pronto. Kudos to us :)
So sometime after the fireworks ended we cleaned up and trooped out towards Marzipan's place (which I had thought would be much closer than it is, but ended up being all the way down by Stadium station, through some of the seedier areas including the western edge of "East Van" which is supposed to be notorious for it's homeless and druggie problem) when the crowds were a little thinner. Turns out none of the group have much in terms of leadership skills and the group of people heading back to Marzipan's (17 of us) got split into three during the course of the trip back, and had everybody worried and phoning each other trying to find out who was where and how they got lost. Not fun, but EVENTUALLY we all got back to Marzipan's place, the one group actually beating the group I was with, which included Marzipan himself, back to Marzi's place. We yakked around and such for a little bit and got snacks from a 7-eleven as people one by one crashed, with me and Sairys being some of the last people to go to bed, and thus having trouble finding floor space. Also watched a few people play games on Marzi's computer and was exposed to some of Marzi's collection of furry porn, which was... interesting to say the least.
Also ended up wrestling with the token bodybuilder fur for the event, can't recall his name, about 180lbs, worked out every second day bench presses about 200. And had another stalemate after I just sucked my gut in and dropped to the floor right out of his back hold, then floor wrestled a bit until I wrapped my legs around his neck and managed to pull off a Sonya style (Mortal Kombat I) leg-grab and flip him using my legs with my hands on the ground as support.
So then Sairys and me finally found some space in one room to sleep together under my blanket with only two other guys in the room, Dustin (a 17 year old non-fur who's come to scope us out and possibly join; and Spooge). Well turned out after cuddling some Sairys woke up and couldn't get back to sleep, while I couldn't get to sleep at all. So we did what else two people sharing a bed do besides sleep. We had sex. Yes, in a house party full of 17 people, most of whom were asleep. This is where the story takes a funny turn.
Graphic: Well Sairys is to say the least horny as hell, and by the time I had gotten the idea that he wanted to fool around he'd already came in his underwear once, and a second time when I had barely even started manhandling his penis. Not being able to get off myself and not finding much enjoyment so far I convinced Sairys to get a condom and do the part I'd never experienced. Only problem is when he leaned over Dustin to get his wallet which had a condom he managed to drop his wallet and get the condom stuck under Dustin's foot. When I asked what Sairys was doing taking so long he said he had a problem, so I leaned over butt naked showing my ass to a sleeping Spooge, and managed to wriggle the condom and wallet which had stuck to the floor due to the Velcro, free from Dustin's foot WITHOUT waking Dustin. Some short moments later Sairys has it on, and I end up doing most of the work myself, getting him in. Umm, ow, bad idea. Despite his stories I don't think Sairys has had much sexual experience, as he brought only ONE UNLUBRICATED condom and NO KY.
So, umm ow, the first time I tried to get him in I whisper-swore and bite down on my arm through the blanket to not scream. Being me however, I tried again, and knowing what to expect got him all the way in and managed to do it without any lubrication as I lost my anal virginity to a guy who at least had decent sized equipment. After that and him popping out after the deed was done, leaving my rump pretty sore till about noon the next day, eh was kinda worn out and I had to do all the work getting myself off. Alas, somehow I expected this; but at least Sairys is trainable and more than willing. And despite the pain I enjoyed the experience, and want to have another go at it. WAAAY better than the times I had sex with Ashley back in high-school, I still feel dirty remembering those. I'd say it's good evidence that I'm very much gay.
Despite all this we managed to do it so quietly that not a soul awoke or heard us, not even poor Dustin. After Sairys passed out again I still couldn't sleep, so I got up at around 6am, after Spooge woke up and was the first to get up and start making noise. Had a single coke to get some caffeine into my system, even though I'm trying to cut pop out of my diet, and am down to my third in an entire month. Yakked as people slowly woke up, and yakked to them cutting crude jokes and whispering to Sairys who was still giddy about the whole thing, and thinks I'm equipped like a damn rhino. After some jokes about Acco and whoever Acco had been cuddling during the night (turns out despite multiple people being dating partners and cuddling each other over the night, I was the only one to get any action, not even Marzi who had a locked bedroom with two people including Reno his BF sharing his bed), as they both played fox furs, which are supposedly "walking cock warmers"; which had me mess up half asleep a very bad joke:
"Well you know what they say about foxes right? Cocks are only good fox warmers", and then burst out laughing until a rolled up sleeping bag was tossed at me by a guy(the same one I wrestled) who had been sleeping and using the sleeping bag as a pillow, xD. At some point after this before we left m being me I ended up telling Dustin what had happened. The poor kid's a virgin and was in absolute shock that he slept through two guys screwing and one having to bite down to not scream. And Dustin was thusly going on the whole day: "WHILE. I. WAS. SLEEPING!", to some people's annoyance, even though I found i priceless. Honestly I think he was only jealous because he didn't get to watch or join in xDD
At about 8am most of us trundled off to a Ricky's for breakfast, Waffles with strawberries and whipped cream for me, nummy. And a whole pot of tea for caffeine. Then went down and got to our little spot for the parade at bout 10:30 just before Marzi, found Lenare who hadn't gone to Marzi's place waiting for us. She let me borrow her sunscreen so I could sit around shirtless and tan, much to a large number of people's pleasure, including Sairys's <3. At about noon after some confusion due to a very confused volunteer who took a golf cart THROUGH oncoming traffic to tell us that the parade would be down pacific street, not Beach street (hello we were ON Pacific street, and all knew this, ready to camp out and watch). The parade eventually got to us at about 12:45pm, after we'd watched a Lesbian biker gang called the Bulldaggers come along celebrating two of their member's wedding, riding around in circles down the road, and honking plenty. Also bring a small entourage of family with them which had two token guys riding around on a tiny little yellow moped wearing nothing but kilts (some of the lesbian bikers wore even less such as just electrical tape over their nipples and show all underwear) and a granny on another moped with a cape of the gay pride flag.
The parade came by and was awesome, and it got really hot, unsure exactly how bad but lots of paraders had water-pistols and such cooling off the crowd as they strutted their stuff, some of which was rather enjoyable to watch <3. Since local emergency services have being having REALLY bad rep they had parade things go by two, trying to win over community support, since there were only about 400,000 people watching the parade. This included a fire engine which *hosed* sections of the crowd down, but it got so hot that ten minutes later we could see the steam rise off the road where there had been water and dry out. Unfortunately I have no pictures of my own, but will later edit this if I can get hold of some of Rainrat, or other people's pictures . Managed to recognize several people during the parade including Ryan whom I know from "the Center", which is a support group place for LGBT (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender). As well as a few of the people from VFUR parading in support of different groups.
The parade was long and finally finished passing us at about 3:30pm, however things for Sairys took a turn for the bad here. See Sairys was supposed to work Sunday at 3:30, and had planned to call in sick, but just as the manager was answering when he was trying to do so, from a little distance away from the parade, somebody noticed him and came up to him yelling, so Sairys being the poor liar he is had to try and make up another excuse. No go. So after sticking around a little after the parade Sairys had to leave about 4pm to go all the way down to Surrey to work, leaving me with the rest of the group who hadn't trundled off :P.
Turns out I have all the leadership skills at this point as I managed to herd all the scatted people to a central shady location to setup a base where people could return to and have their stuff watched as they trundled off to snack and see the festival/vendors selling stuff on parade day. Takes me 30 seconds to do what everybody else in the group couldn't do Saturday night in over an hour O_o;, I has natural 18 Charisma? So after half of the people had returned 7 of us went off back to a restaurant near Marzi's place, by bus this time instead of walking, where our waiter turned out to be a parade participant and recognized me before anybody recognized him. If everything else didn't say I had high charisma, being a face you can remember out of a crowd of 400,000 people despite a lack of any major distinguishing features like tattoos or scars, is a definite statement.
Ended up having vegetable Manicotti and Strawberry Banana smoothies as the rest of the group showed up occupying a large chunk of restaurant with a 17 person table, keeping our poor waiter rather busy (we all tipped pretty well, I even tipped $5 for an under $20 meal), and passing on the ice cream he'd recommended and got everyone which was some interesting blend of chocolate, mint and French vanilla. Gave mine to somebody else but still paid for it. After we had paid and stuff most people went their separate ways, except for me, Lenare and Marzi who all went back to Marzi's place where we found Reno and Mikau had managed to let themselves in through the balcony, ON THE FIFTH FLOOR of the apartment/townhouse complex (actually 4th since there is no 4th floor and it's considered unlucky in China? Construction must have been by Chinese people), somehow. Scary. o_o.
Said goodbye to Lenare, and promised to get a hold of her so she could travel with Sairys to next week's part; grabbed by stuff and took the Skytrain off with Mikau. Turns out Mikau has Aspergers and gets disability for it, talks non-stop enough to be believable, and I don't think he did realize when he may have rubbed people the wrong way, although all of VFUR despite their personal drama-fests are pretty easy going and hard to offend. Finally got home at around 8:30pm having been gone 31 hours partying. Told my folks I'd been down to the parade, even showed them the bright pink "Drama Queen" t-shirt I'd got for free from the parade. Which resulted in some questions about whether the friends I was partying with were gay, told them a fair number were. No further comment.
Robin (brother) phoned a little later, turns out while he was out partying elsewhere he'd managed to get his bike stolen JUST after me and Dad had got him this fancy $200 bike helmet that he'd wanted for his birthday :( . While mom was downstairs playing games she popped the inevitable question of "have you decided to join their (gay people) ranks?", which I avoided by remarking "I never knew they had *ranks*", which he stammered and tried to say didn't mean that way. So maybe they do know I'm gay, maybe they don't. I'm not exactly making it difficult to figure out.
Took a shower, then crashed ending my adventure of wacky hijinks for the weekend.