My high school back in the sixties had two gyms, one for the freshmen and sophomores and one for the juniors and seniors. Both gyms shared a common locker room. For some reason, they scheduled the 9th grade boys and the 12th grade boys for gym at the same time. And the rule was, you had to take a shower after class. So us 9th grade boys, who barely had hair on our peckers, would be in the shower and these big hulking guys would come in all hairy and sweaty and basically tell us we’d better get out of there and if we didn’t move out immediately they would pee on us. Sometimes they didn’t even bother with telling us to get out of the shower, sometimes they just peed on us. I remember one time, there was a 9th grader named Tom Shirley, and these older boys had a field day with him. They yelled out “Hey Shirley, what color panties do you have on today,” or “Hey Shirley, you’re almost as sexy as your mother,” and stuff like that. Then one of them held him and two or three peed on him at a time, until he cried. Then they let him go.
In junior year I was at a party with Tom, and I asked him did he remember all that stuff in the shower. He said hell yea, and he couldn’t wait until next year when he could return the favor on the new crop of ninth graders. I said I thought maybe it was time for that tradition to end and that maybe we could stop it once and for all so kids like him wouldn’t have to suffer.
They can do it next year after I’ve had my turn, he said. After that, I don’t care what they do.
At the start of school that year, the school changed the gym schedule and scheduled the seniors and juniors together and the freshmen and sophomores together. Tom was very upset. He’d been waiting for years to terrorize fourteen-year-olds with his fearsome dick, just as he’d been terrorized.
I lost touch with him after that.
I wonder who he eventually pissed on.
By Evalyn Baron
On November 7, 2026
So deliciously enjoyable, Larry……not to mention mentally visually quite pleasing…a fun, somehow quite emotional tale told here….something profound about human nature….loved this piece.
By Roberta Lawrinsky
On November 7, 2026
Vividly told. The ending is unexpected and quite reflective, the narrator wondering on whom Tom eventually took the opportunity to piss on.
Makes me recall several incidents in the girls’ gym. including that the run down wooden walls that separated the boys’ locker room from the girls’ had several boards missing. One day I looked up and noticed several boys looking through the cracks.