Wally and His Lesbian Cousin Wendy

Over forty years later…

Wally was ten years old and his cousin Wendy was eleven. Young Wally had heard many a relative refer to her as a ‘tomboy.’ He was not sure what that meant. To him, kids were still just kids.

Wally’s family drove once a year to upstate New York where Wendy’s family lived in a house that had a basement. In that basement was an old upright piano that was horrendously out of tune.

While the adult relatives were upstairs partying and drinking and yelling and laughing, Wally and Wendy went down to the basement to play. They took turns playing the piano even though neither of them knew how to play it. While one was banging away at the out of tune piano, the other one sang and performed on an invisible stage as though they were in a Broadway musical. They went back and forth between piano player and performer and if there were any rats in the basement they quickly left at the horrible noise.

Wally’s sole intent was to impress his female cousin. Wendy’s sole intent was to have fun.

Wally and Wendy did not see each other again for over forty years. When they ran into each other at an extended family reunion Wally was rather surprised to find out that Wendy had become a lesbian. And she seemed so happy.

A middle-aged, divorced, single man, Wally wondered what she thought he had become. He was not sure what he came off as.

He certainly had not become a piano player nor Broadway performer. After all those years he was still trying to impress females but he was not having any fun.

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