Got Any Quarters?

Posted on: March 25, 2009
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I overturned the little metal band-aid tin that had been serving as my ‘secret’ coin stash only to see a stream of nickels and dimes pour out into my hand. “Goddamnit, Tim,” I mumbled angrily to myself while shuffling the coins back into their container. At the start of the semester, I figured out that my new roommate, Tim, is a compulsive change-thief. Well, I guess he isn’t a ‘thief’ exactly. Tim takes the quarters out of my change stash and replaces them with an equal value of nickels and dimes. While in his mind he feels this is a perfectly acceptable thing to do, he just doesn’t understand why I get so incensed over the unwitting transaction.”Nickels and Dimes are useless, Tim!” I shout condescendingly every time he tries to defend his actions. “The washers and dryers only take quarters, dumbass. How am I supposed to do my laundry?!” But Tim is the dumb, pretty type. Well, he’s the dumb, pretty, and terribly self-absorbed type. So getting through to him on this matter is pretty much an uphill battle that I’m just not willing to fight. Rather, I have taken to hiding my quarters in various vessels and containers about the room, hoping to keep my stash protected. But, evidently, he’s figured me out this week and found the not-so-empty Band-aid tin that I’d tucked away in my shower caddy. I finished returning the rest of the loose change into its tin and tossed it into the tattered, little, blue ...

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