One night a couple years ago I found myself at the bar across the street from my office. Nothing unusual about my being there except that usually when I'm there, it's for a quick one with friends after work on Thursday or Friday. This was around eleven on a Saturday and the crowd was a quite different one than I usually encountered. The place was packed and I was very lucky to have scored a stool right at the bar, but I was feeling older and older by the minute as the place filled up.
To my left a young couple had been starry-eyed all over each other the entire time I'd been sipping my drink. She had poured her voluptuous young body into a very stretchy and skimpy mocha colored dress that was ruched in the back but quite plain in the front which exhibited her headlights nicely and they were on high beam that night. He was practically drooling in her lap and there could be no doubt where things were headed.
Just as I was polishing off my drink they headed out. No sooner had they disappeared than the stool was claimed by a little blonde hottie in a short short short (did I mention short?) skirt and camisole top. She couldn't have been more than a hundred pounds and had great legs. When she ordered a cosmo, Alicia the bartender proofed her and much to my surprise she passed scrutiny.
The drink arrived and she started fumbling in her purse as Alicia waited impatiently with raised eyebrows. I knew I was being played, but figured what the hell, ordered myself another martini and indicated to Alicia that I was going to cover Ms. Hottie"s too.
Hottie smiled at me and said "Thanks!"
It took a minute or two but when my drink arrived, we clinked glasses. "I'm Kara."
"Dave." I responded. "A pleasure."
We chatted and the place continued to fill up. By the time we both had empty glasses in front of us I'd found out that she was twenty two, a college student studying nursing, and that she was working for the summer as a lifeguard at an amusement park nearby. I envisioned her sleek little body wrapped in a Baywatch style swimsuit with high cut leg openings and little halter straps, probably sporting a nice cameltoe and headlights shining.