I had a work laptop many years ago when I worked from home, me and Mrs H went on holiday and my single mate “house sat” for us, I told him he could use the work laptop, this was early days, think it was 8GB.
Anyway, I had to attend head office a couple of weeks later, our gaffer asked how we were all getting on WFH, various concerns but all was good. He then said everyone could leave apart from me, I sensed a bollocking was on the horizon. He was very diplomatic and said if I wanted to use the laptop be careful what sites I was on. I told him I’d not been on anything dodgy apart from the betting sites (we were a broadcaster of horse racing into betting shops so not really that bad). He said, the betting sites were not the issue, I asked for species and he said “porn”. Penny dropped, must have been my mate who I shouldn’t have let use my laptop. I said, oh I’m sorry it was probably my stepson who was about 17 at the time, (he was actually at his Dad’s whilst we were away), gaffer says, “well if that’s the case you may need to have a word with him, it was gay porn”, fuck me, I was so embarrassed.
Me and my mate knew each other virtually from birth, born 6 days apart and grew up across the street from each other, he’d only had one girlfriend (we were late 30’s at the time) and even today at 64 he’s still single, very private and we hardly see him. It’s sad to think if he is gay he didn’t feel comfortable enough to come out and has lived in his own for most of his adult life, he could though have just been “gay curious”.
