Mark & Mike - A Partnership

How it all started - Mike's Version.  

[Picture left - Hawaii January 2002]

27 December 1984 in Wellington, New Zealand - for both of us, I think, was a day of suffering the post Christmas-blues. Mark had been in Taranaki to have Christmas with his family and had returned to commence painting his unit. I, having worked over the last few days and spending my first Christmas alone after splitting with my partner of nine years, was looking for some fun.

Where does a guy in downtown Wellington go the day after a public holiday……… you guessed it, the bathhouse. For those of you with a little local knowledge - the Wakefield Sauna in fact. Sitting outside the sauna and looking into the shower as any guy would, I spied this cute fella with great legs and all the right attributes in a few other places. Well, you know how it goes, time for a shower and a bit of closer inspection - it seemed the chattels were in working order and there was a little bit of interest.

Mark would probably add in at this stage, that this guy followed me around all night and wouldn't leave me alone! Me, I'd call it cruising and getting your man! He was really intent on watching Richard Chamberlain in 'Shogun', I later discovered hairy chests are one of his major turn-on's. Richard Chamberlain, as you know stacks up pretty well in that respect - I, too, had one thing right! I suffered the movie and made all the right signals, giving the knowing look and smiles. To cut the story short, we finally had our night of fun. For one it was a great, but anonymous occasion, the other equally content but also smitten.

Our meeting was one of those occasions, which were completely anonymous, and no phone numbers exchanged.  Wellington was then only a small city of about 200,000 people time and over the previous 10 years that we had both been there we had not come across each other. We later discovered that we both had lots of mutual acquaintances, but our paths had never crossed. I started talking to a few friends about this guy that I'd met, not knowing how to get of hold of him. Finally, a friend knew of him through another friend and putting the pieces together we established that it was the same guy.

Wayne my buddy, tracked down his number and I made the call. Mark seemed unsure, but I later discovered at the time he was suffering from a migraine. I invited him to dinner and from his sick bed in a moment of weakness, he said 'yes' - if only to get rid of me! Wayne and his partner Pat came to make the numbers and so that I wasn't all over him from the moment he walked in the door! Mark, although he didn't let on, wasn't feeling the best that night……………. The guys eventually took their leave and I managed to convince Mark to stay just for one more drink. Somehow we picked up on the chemistry from the night two weeks prior, he stayed late into the night!  

From then on we were hardly ever a night apart, staying over at each other's places and settling on together 12 weeks later. It as has been nearly eighteen years now…………….. Later to be added to.         [ Picture: Mykonos 1999]                                                 

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