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Sweet Grapes

My family owns a vineyard in central California for making wines. I was in second in charge of hiring the help to pick fruit, make the wine and bottle under supervision of my dad of course. The picking was mostly done and the crew was running things pretty smoothly prepping the juice for fermentation. I had a friend, Alex, arrive for a visit for a few weeks from Ohio, he and I had fucked around during our high school years before he moved away. He was very upset with his parents for taking him so far away from where he grew up and secretly away from me, we had made plans to move in together after high school was over. This was the first time we had seen each other in person since then and we were now 22 years old and only a few months apart in age. I picked him up at the airport and put his bags in the back of my old Dodge pickup and headed toward home. Alex was grinning about as much as I was, we had talked on the phone near every day since he left for Ohio and at least once a w

Shopping For a Man

I had to go to the mall for some new clothes that I needed for a vacation, I was tired of my old board shorts and tee shirts. The fucking parking lot was jammed as I passed row after row of cars, each time I would see one backing out, some bastard would beat me to it but I was determined not to lose my temper. I had my blinker on as a car backed out of a nearby parking spot but he backed the wrong way and some fucker bounced in before the car leaving was hardly out of the space. I drove on and took a newly vacated space and this one was actually in the shade of one of those small parking lot trees, as I walked to the entrance I could see the guy that beat me to the earlier parking space headed for the door ahead of me. Going onto the mall, I stopped and took a look at some board shorts and some cargo shorts, selecting a few pair to try on I headed for the dressing rooms only to find a big ass line of mostly women to use the set of dressing rooms. As the next door opened I made