Another Too-Shy Guy and a Total Extrovert

I saw what you wrote about the guy who had a college roommate who jerked off in front of him all the time. Who is it? [I'm not going to say.] Come on, I probably know him. I might have seen him in your waiting room, right? [You know I can't reveal that!] Well anyway, it made me remember a time that I felt the same way. Like, "Oh, if only I was as bold and free as that guy." You see, our YMCA is old-school. I mean the shower room isn't individual stalls the way they are in most modern buildings. We have a large tiled square room with like six shower heads along each wall. You walk up to one, turn it on, and shower in front of all the guys. No big deal right? But one day, just this one time, there was a guy in there I hadn't seen before. He was young. My age, maybe 26. He was tall, thin and had longish black hair. Well the thing about him, and he started off normally enough - soaping up his hair, his shoulders, his underarms, working his way down to his feet. Then he rinsed all the soap off. I thought nothing about it, although I glanced over from time to time. Oh, I'm not gay, or at least not very much, but I do check the guys out, especially the good-looking ones. And, sometimes the older gents. There's something about a gray-haired man, that makes you respect him, and want to know him, and something more. He's kind of attractive in a way. I mean, a little bit. Well anyway, this young guy finishes rinsing off, and I figured he'd walk right past me to get his towel. I always take a showerhead near the entrance, so people have to walk right past me. So maybe I'm a bit more gay than I care to admit. [He laughs.] But he stayed under the water spray. Then he did the most unexpected thing. He started playing with his cock. Right there in front of everyone. There were about four other guys in the room, plus me, and we all had a clear view of this guy. Pretty soon he was jerking off in earnest. His penis was fully erect, and after a couple of minutes, he was rocking up on his toes, convulsing - you could see his calf muscles working, and ejaculating into the drain at his feet. Then, he turned off the shower, walked past me, got his towel and left. We, me and the other guys in the shower room, were shocked. No one said a word, and we kind of know each other a little bit, and we often have brief conversations in the shower. The guy had made a bit of eye contact with each of us, but nothing more, except when he walked past me, like when he was just 3 feet away, he winked at me and smiled. I've never seen him since. However, for the next 3 months, I was a very dedicated gym member. I was exercising 4 or 5 times a week. My wife thought my new fitness craze was good for me, but missed my company. I kept hoping to see him again, but nothing. I have no idea what would have happened had he come back. Would he have repeated the performance? Would I, or anyone else there, copy him? Would we possibly even get more involved? You hear about blowjobs in public showers and all that. But maybe most of all, I'd like to have known his story. Why did he do that? Was he an exhibitionist? Did he think it was normal? Was he making a statement? I guess I'll never know. But here's the thing: I keep thinking someone has to carry on in his tradition. I mean, what if I jerked off in the shower at the Y? Wouldn't that be a great and interesting thing to do? I'm sure no one would 'bust' me or anything. I could just do it, and see what happens. And yet I haven't, and probably never will.