Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 12:14:13 -0500 From: Brian Johnson Subject: Skinny-Dipping with David My name is William (Bill) Petersen and this story starts when I was 10 years old. My dad was in the Air Force, so we traveled a great deal. At least until I was 10 years old. Then we were stationed at a small base for 4 years. We lived off base because there wasn't much housing available for officers. That was when I met my friend Dave. His dad was in the Air Force also and they just lived a block away from us. We got along fine with the civilian kids, but some times Dave and I wanted to be alone. We were both 12 at the time this happened. It was a hot summer day and we were riding our bikes and weren't paying too much attention where we were. We came to a junction with a dirt rode and decided to see where it led. After a while we came to a small lake, or it might have been a large pond. It did not matter, as we both were hot and sweaty. We decided to go for a swim and started to get undressed. About the time we got down to our underpants, we must of realized that we did not have a swimming suit. We hesitated a bit but then we both pulled our underpants down. We figured that there was no reason we could not swim naked. After all we saw each other in the shower room after gym class at school. So we jumped in to the water and we had a lot of fun. Now if you get a couple of young boys swimming, naked or not, there is bound to be some horseplay. Well we had been in the water for quite a while having a good time. When all of a sudden, there was a policeman standing there and he told us to get out of the water. We had to put our clothes back on without having a chance to dry off. He put our bikes in the trunk of his squad car and told us to get in the back seat. We asked where he was taking us and he said, "The police station so your parents can pick you up." When we got to the station, a policeman told us to sit down and he asked us our names. I guess he did not recognize our names because he asked if our dads were in the "Air Force. We said yes and he made a phone call. I guess he called the base, because about 20 minutes later both of our dads showed up. The policeman was talking very seriously to both dads and they were frowning at us. My dad then said that it would never happen again and that we would be punished. They scowled at us and with a military command voice we were told to get into the car. They put our bikes into the trunk and drove off in complete silence. We knew that we were in for some major type of punishment. About a block away from the police station, both dads started laughing and they were laughing loudly. They pulled over to the side of the road and Dave's dad turned around, looked at us and said, "How can we punish you two for something that both of us had done when we were your age." It seems that when the policeman called them, he told them what we had done. On the way to pick us up, they learned that at about the same age, they had been skinny-dipping and had also got caught. They dropped us off at my house and said for us to have a good afternoon.