
So started a nearly five-hour long conversation, and a TUG-buddy relationship that hopefully has much in store for the future!
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
It all began last fall, when I came across this forum. Well, that’s not true. I’ve been interested in tie up games since my cousin tied me to a tree with a jumprope when I was eight! But I thought I was weird for wanting to be tied up, and I didn’t even know what to search for to find out more (searching “bondage†got... different results, and that’s not really my thing). One day I found this site, and was a lurker for quite a while before I decided to get an account. Boy am I glad I did...
I’d browsed around the TUG buddies forum a bit, looking for people in my area. I added the screennames of two guys I found to my AIM buddy list. One of them was online. I took a deep breath, and sent a greeting, not knowing what to expect. Five hours later, it was pretty clear that things were going well! He and I had a non-stop conversation about everything from TUGs, to the History Channel (he couldn’t believe I watched the same “geeky†shows he loved!) I was grinning from ear to ear and couldn’t type fast enough, despite the late hour. The next day the conversation shifted to our mutual love of bowling... which, naturally, led to the making of a bet. He’d bet on tie-ups over bowling before, and I was pretty confident in my bowling skills (I bowl better than most of my guy friends), so I eagerly took up the challenge. Three out of five would get control of the first tie up, whenever we’d eventually meet. We lived over 200 miles apart, so it wasn’t likely to be soon. But boy oh boy did we have things to look forward to!