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Spaced Out

I am an astronaut headed for the international space station after years of training for exactly this. Riding to the station on a Russian rocket with two Russian’s to replace the threesome that have been in space for six months. Hours from docking communications with the Russians was strained with me knowing a small amount of Russian and they even less English. We docked later that day and met with the existing crew going over duties and planned experiments and jobs before they left a few days later leaving only the three of us on the station. Though we share the station, much of what I do is independent from what they do but we team up for the larger jobs and space walks. The ISS orbits the Earth every ninety minutes so we get to see a sunrise and a sunset every 45 minutes. One of the Russian’s, Rolf, left his sleeping compartment door open and fell asleep and not being in his wall mounted sleeping bag he floated out into the main room while he slept. Rolf was a good looking g

College Lifeguard

I just got hired on as a part time lifeguard at the college pool, it was better than waiting tables to help pay my way through college. Going through my training I had to work in all pool areas and learn those positions prior to my lifeguard training, part of that involved lot duty, cleaning up trash around the grounds inside and out, cleaning up in the men’s locker room and towel duty which only involved rolling the huge canvas sided cart full of wet towels to the laundry room and re stocking with fresh towels. I didn’t mind the locker room duties too much, basically spraying germicide on the shower walls and floors before hosing everything down at the end of the evening. Sometimes there was a straggler or two in the shower stalls so I would work around them when I could, letting them finish up their shower. One night I was getting ready to spray the germicide inside the showers and a cute dark haired guy was in showering off after his swim. “Oh, sorry, I’ll finish up quick.