{"id":323,"date":"2009-09-05T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2009-09-05T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T13:39:43","slug":"no-more-comment-on-the-volpaia-waiter-please-%e2%80%93-enough-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"No More Comment on the Volpaia Waiter, Please \u2013 Enough, Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 5th<\/sup> September 2009<\/p>\n

\u00a0Have you seen what\u2019s happened? \u00a0Just mention an unknown Italian waiter and there\u2019s an eruption of comment such as we\u2019ve never seen before. It\u2019s sex, of course.\u00a0 Forget my elevated musing on the subject of being paid for. Far more important to air views on a nameless waiter unlikely to be seen or heard of again.<\/p>\n

\u00a0If you don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about, you\u2019ll have to look at the comments on the previous posting, \u2018On Being Paid For\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Perhaps we\u2019ll have to have more sex in the blog.<\/p>\n

\u00a0But it\u2019s getting dangerous. Mottram is up to something. He sent a threatening private message yesterday. It said, \u2018Watch it\u2019. Asked to explain, he did not reply. Well, he <\/em>mentioned kitchens in his comment, which is his name for very young boys\/men he likes so I had no choice but to explain in the glossary. Of course, I am cast in the role of bitter, jealous monster. But what does it mean that he calls them kitchens, which is complicated short-hand for chickens?\u00a0 Besides, rich older man with youthful (but not illegal, of course) boyfriend plus one or both of them with sister\/wife figure (in other words, me, Adrian Edge) trailing along behind and that relationship often more continuous and ultimately satisfactory is a feature of poor little rich gay life. It is surely seen in straight relationships too, but with gays living this exaggerated kind of existence (I suppose I mean more freedom, fewer ties, children etc) and the further aspect, in the case of the poor little rich gays, of considerable wealth, it shows up more.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0So it has to be explored. And followed. What will happen? The main reason for remaining alive is: what will happen next?\u00a0 The great drawback of being dead is no news, no developments, missing out on the latest. If the dead came back they\u2019d be so last year we wouldn\u2019t know what to say to them. So what will happen to this curious trio of me, Adrian Edge, and Anthony Mottram, companions of forty years, and Vladimir from the Ukraine?<\/p>\n

\u00a0There is also the phenomenon, going back to the poor waiter at Volpaia, of intense sexual interest in \u2018unsuitable\u2019 people; in other words, if they don\u2019t speak English, aren\u2019t especially educated (although that young man might have been a PHD student, for all I know), are unlikely to want to settle down in comfortable, baggy, boring companionship, all the better.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Anthony Mottram has suggested that I join a group from Prague, including Vladimir from the Ukraine, his current boyfriend, for a few days in Istanbul in October. I don\u2019t think I can go because that is when I holiday with the Gay Mother. She has sent for a new passport and has been looking for the cork forests of Southern Spain in the atlas. So we have that thrilling prospect. She is 85, you know.<\/p>\n

\u00a0But Mottram has made no mention of a holiday for just the two of us. It now nearly four years since we had a week in Tobago. Is it too much to ask? Of course, he would say I meanly fucked off with the Multis to Tuscany and refused the usual summer holiday with the two of them.\u00a0 At times this is how Mottram makes me feel:<\/p>\n

\"Adrian

Adrian Edge martyred by Anthony Mottram<\/p><\/div>\n

Is this childish? I hope so. Poor Little Rich Gays can afford not to\u00a0grow up and become sensible.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Final word on the Volpaia waiter: I see I have allowed his person to be openly picked over. Let\u2019s hope he never hears of it. Robert Nevil and Anthony Mottram prefer scrawny, near-starved little scraps; our Italian friend is burly, so not their type. He is also, I state definitively, handsome and engaging by any standard, particularly in his method of service which is: jaw drops as third bottle of wine at 60 euros is requested and order repeated incredulously: \u2018You want another one?\u2019<\/p>\n

Yes, we do want another one; that’s the trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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