Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:29:46 -0700
From: borischen <borischen@zoho.com>
Subject: Boss's Kid Chapter 1: Word of Ben

This is a short story about two young men, crew members on a broadcast
tower painting crew. Very sexually explicit boyxboy. Slightly based on a
true story. This should not be read by anyone less than 18 years of age or
those offended by gay sex and explicit dialog.

This story is based on one released in 2007 by a great writer. The original
story is on the nifty.org gay-incest archive: Nov 19 2007 'Dad and son in
public shower.' Thanks to Sean for permission and inspiration.
Comments to borischen at zoho dot com


Cast of characters:

Scott Daley: part owner of the company, boss of one of the three crews.
Lives near St Louis. Father of two, divorced. Tall muscular, 45 years
old. 6'3" 200lbs.

Dave Rivera: short 5'6" 115lbs  27, hot temper, thin muscular, olive
skinned - Hispanic, married 1 child, lives near St Louis,  black/black,
very hetero.

Jeremy Hatcher: 5'10" 170lbs 26 years old, brown curly hair, blue eyes,
squishy build, single-hetero.

Me (Narrator) (Tyler Watson): 6' 150 lean brown/brown, 21, single (closeted
gay), lives alone in a rented mobile home near East St Louis, IL.

Ben Daley: Scott's oldest child. 6'1" 150 lbs. blond/blue, 18 years old.
Smooth, slightly muscular, soft spoken - shy, sexuality unknown.


Chapter 1

This is my first time working for a tower painting company. I heard about
the job from an online ad. At first I was skeptical but went for the
interview anyway. The dude offered me a job! I took it without knowing all
the details about how we actually painted but I did tell him I wasn't
afraid of heights. I never really been up that high, except when we went to
Seattle when I was a kid with my parents.

You may've seen, most towers are painted red and white. Usually those are
in forty foot long sections. I work for a company called Missouri Tower
Service of St Louis. We cover the states of Iowa, Illinois, Missouri,
Arkansas and part of Kentucky and Oklahoma. We have two crews, each one has
a foreman and three workers. It's a seasonal job, they do commercial tower
repair outside the painting season, but it's like a separate business from
painting. They make and sell some of the gear we use to paint.

It depends on the tower and cost, but there are two basic ways to paint a
tower, with brushes or your hands. There are two basic ways to get up
there, climb and carry the paint on your belt, or use cables, baskets,
pulleys, and hoists. Some towers, the biggest ones have elevators. Some
have safety gear on the sides leftover from their original construction to
make the job faster and safer too.

The crew I'm on is the one with one of the owners of the business. He's
from St Louis. Actually, the boss is a decent guy, really safety conscious.
Maybe you heard about deaths in other companies doing the same work.

To be honest, hanging in a basket loaded with paint buckets being slowly
moved along the side of a 500 foot tall broadcast tower is dangerous no
matter what. There's at least one person killed doing this job every year
in America I hear.

The crew I'm on consists of me, Jeremy, Dave, the boss is Scott. Dave told
me each summer the boss's son comes along but doesn't do too much because
he's afraid of heights and isn't paid much. Scott and his wife are
divorced. His son Ben lives with his ex-wife in Colorado where he's in high
school. In two more days we pick him up at the airport in Little Rock.

I'm 21, about six foot tall. Jeremy is a little shorter but a bit thicker.
Dave is about 27 and short.  Maybe 5' 6" with temperament to match. Jeremy
is a nice guy, he's 26, single and kind of dorky. Dave is lean and mean but
Jeremy is not what I would call fat, just soft and squishy. Jeremy like me
is kinda quiet. The boss Steve is tall and lean, maybe 6' 3" and maybe 200
lbs.

Our pay is decent. We get $18 an hour with overtime, bonuses and benefits.
They supply all the gear, clothing, materials. Plus each team has a budget
to spend on hotels since we're on the road four days a week typically. We
pay our meals, except Scott buys the first meal after each job.

So here's what we do. Each tower is inspected in daylight to a color
matching card with two colors. Over time the orange/red color fades, the
white slowly gets darker. They need to be re-painted to avoid fines from
the FAA. Plus it helps extend the life of the tower. We get hoisted up the
side of the tower in a 3x3 wire cage basket, sort of like a small hot air
balloon basket. Inside are buckets of tower paint. We wear gear strapping
us to the basket and sometimes to the tower.

We wear these huge glove/sleeve things that are like a glove, sleeve and
paintbrush all in one. The hands go in the bucket, then right to the tower
pieces. We paint by hand all the way up, then ride down trying not to
scratch our fresh paint. The pace is hectic. On really large-wide towers,
like those with no guy wires we may use multiple baskets. Then it's a race,
team against team.

Our crew can usually do three hundred feet in four hours, weather and
Murphy's Law permitting. In the process we get some really neat views of
the country side from way up in the air. We also get exposed sometimes to
strong signals from all the antennas on the sides of towers. They're
supposed to be shut off before we start, but since you can't feel the
signals you never know for sure. Part of Dave's job is to make sure all the
transmitters are shut off, locked-out.

If the tower is really big and covered with antennas we may end up doing it
at night because it would cost too much to shut off all the transmitters
during the day.

I've only done a couple of night jobs. Being on a 500 foot tower at 1am can
be really freaky.

I've heard about Ben, the boss's son but never met him in person.
Everyone's afraid of talking about him since he is the boss's kid, probably
immune from prosecution. Jeremy and Dave said he was a decent kid but not
much of a help on job sites sometimes. Mostly he served as base crew and
gopher. He won't go up with us so he preps paint and helps Dave work the
hoists and cables.

On some tower jobs Dave is the lead man who goes there ahead of the crew by
four hours to climb the tower and place the lifting cables and stuff. He
has just the right temperament and size for that job. I watched Dave scale
a 500 footer once, took him 22 minutes. He looked like some huge insect
near the top he climbs so well. He's in great physical shape I guess.

-+-

In a short break between jobs the crew headed down to Little Rock to pick
up Ben, he was flying out to join us and spend time with his dad on what I
heard was court ordered visitation. I was looking forward to meeting him.
He'd be the closest to my age of the entire crew. I was a little
apprehensive about what he'd be like since Scott is so doggone serious all
the time.

I saw some pictures of Ben stuck on the wall inside our equipment trailer
from the last two seasons. He's always in the background, trying to be
invisible to the camera. He's wearing painting gear but not gloved or
sleeved. He looked tall and skinny but well fed and always smiling. And
he's usually near his dad in the photo too. Looked kinda shy really. Light
colored hair, that's about it really.  I had little to go on.



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