Robusto

[Robusto]

Hi Satch.

I haven't read back but I was schooled by some very dodgy types. You know as well as I that being hidden away at boarding school can lead to all sorts. I'm a teacher myself now and never stay in a room with a single kid - male or female - without putting a chair in the door jamb and keeping a distance of about a million miles between myself and the kid.

I'm just home from managing my first Christmas concert ever for our school pupils. Traditional choir, gospel slot, "rock" groups... I'm not into God at all but I do like a good Noel. The kids - about 80 of them - were great. They might have been a disaster.

I've played a lot of gigs in my own right, but I've never conducted a school choir in public before. I feel like Andre fucking Previn.

Time for a slice of cheesecake and a blast on a fat and tasty cigar. I feel I have earned it today.

PS I think dabbling in a robust personal sex life has put those dodgy silhouettes in doorways in dormitories well out of my mind. You have to forget, and you have to get some in.

I lose no sleep over those times.

Dr Ruth xxxxx

[satch]

same thing

Hey Robusto, I went to a boarding school in (then) Rhodesia The housemaster was called (nickname) Moff S.A. slang for gay. He was called Major ..... He used to whip us so hard we bled. The head was a brigadier, they both insisted on being called by thier ranks. Most the teachers were queer or pissheads or just plain strange. Sometimes I go to bed and think about it and can't sleep, and this is after 37 years.
My cigar thing is quite recent but I've always loved the smell. I haven't smoked a fag since I was a teen!

[cj121]

Just re-read your profile Bryan and it is as interesting as when you put it up first. Qu al i ty

[G-man]

Sir
Are U fresh outa Big 58 X 7.5s?
That looks like a fag in your mouth compared to the solomons! ROTF. Next shippment with dog collars . U are incrediable and yet mellow at all times.
I hereby dub ye the Mella Fella award!
Great comming out story

[monkey66]

Fantastic story Robusto and (am I pretty confident) of some value to everybody who reads it on here.

[Robusto]

Absolutely!
The more Gestalt, the merrier.

[Deano]

Do it!

[misterbulgarin]

Intresting read, makes me want to write my own

[Cohiba Fan]

A really interesting read, Bryan. Thanks for sharing

[deltawhisky]

LOL - deservedly

[TJCoro]

Smokin' allowed in SoM, MX.

LOL

You'd be surprised how many chaps keep the smoke confidential!

*EDIT*

And to answer your question, Senor Coro, and to fill in any literary hole I have dug for myself - I'm not, no.

Hmmmm. I find this very interesting! Why do you think that is, senor Scotch?

Smokin' fine Habano puros is not like having a mistress, ya' know. I may have to start up a thread on closet smokers.


Names TJ, TJCoro, and anything goes in SoM, MX.

[deltawhisky]

LOL

You'd be surprised how many chaps keep the smoke confidential!

*EDIT*

And to answer your question, Senor Coro, and to fill in any literary hole I have dug for myself - I'm not, no.

[Robusto]

I don't move in the right milieu to be gay.

[TJCoro]

Play It Straight, Mates!

I don't quite get this...what are you all cuming out from? You're not gay, are ya'?

...not that's there's anything wrong with that.

Names TJ, TJCoro, and I've been openly smokin' fine Habano puros since 1933!

[deltawhisky]

Robusto, great to read the latest post with the picture. The main thing - the best thing - is that this final 'coming out' seems to be comfortable. I am going through much the same thing as I write this - to think that my mates who spend quite a bit of time with me don't even know - don't even have an inckling - that I have anything to do with cigars.

And yes, as the old saying goes, The Truth Will Out!

Right, enough of me being sentimental, that picked me up no end!

:-)