Rain, vacation with visiting family and a small town on the coast of Maine. I just needed someplace to get a beer and read the book I had been trying to read for days now. By myself, with no one else. I found a small bar, out of the way down a side street and sat a small table in the back. The place was pretty lively for a late Thursday afternoon. About half the seats at the bar were filled and a few couples sitting at tables scattered throughout. It was for the most part a local bar, with a few tourists who had stumbled in making up the rest of the clientele. I exhaled, as it was finally a place just to be, with my book and my beer.
I go two pages into the book when a beer bottle slammed down on the the table, followed by a shot glass.
"What the hell is it with men?" she asked as she dropped heavily into the seat opposite me. "I mean really, what is it? All this for nothing."
And she just stared at me. Waiting for an answer.
"Um, are you referring to to some particular man, all men or have I done something I'm unaware of to anger you?"
Now she stared at me again. Very beautiful eyes I was now able to notice after the initial shock had worn off. She looked like she was ready for a night out. Nothing really fancy, but I was beginning to start to sort things out. She was pretty.
"I mean look, I dressed really nice." And she continued to stare at me, assuming, I guess, that I had the answer.
"Well you are dressed rather nice, your pretty actually. But there are some pieces of this puzzle I believe I'm missing."
"Puzzle, there's no puzzle." She was getting angry now. "I had it all worked out, planned really special things for tonight, now, nothing. That's it, nothing." and she fired the shot back and took a long pull on her beer.
"Ok, may I ask a few questions?"
"Yes."
"I don't know you correct?"
"No."
"Can I assume you had a date planned?"
"A date. A date!" She was getting angry again. "It wasn't JUST a date. It was going to be great. More than that. I was going to be an experience, off the charts. I was going to show him something else tonight. I mean look. Look at this. I never would have done this before I decided to put this night together. See, see what I mean..."
She had moved her left leg from out under the table so I could see her high heeled mary janes and the jet black stockings she was wearing.
"You mean the heels?"
"No." And she looked around to see if any eyes were looking our way. "This." And she slowly pulled back the hem of her black dress to reveal the tops of her white thighs above the stockings and garters. "See what I mean, I even got the ones with a little rose on top of the stockings." She said as she pointed to the embroidered rose. "I just wanted to be sexy in a way I'd never been before."
"That is, uh, very nice. Maybe nice really isn't the word for it." And I gave her a smile hoping to calm things down a bit. "But, I'd like to ask you, and it's not that I'm not interested in our conversation, but, well, why in the world are you talking to me?"
"Look around you." She said as she pulled the hem back down on her dress. "Lobstermen and tourists. Who the hell else was I going to talk to." She said a matter of factly. "You ARE the only one reading a book in this bar, so I figured you were smart enough."
I wasn't sure what I was supposedly smart enough for, but I was flattered, so I went with it. The bartender was walking by, so I ordered another beer for her. "Well, I'm smart enough to know your probably need another one."
"Uuugh, yes. Just because his band got a last minute gig. He knew I had this big plan. Damn him. I had a room for us at the Ocean View, the big room and everything. A nice dinner in the room, I had oysters ordered. And then. Then, I mean, then...all the stuff he'd been asking for. I was doing this all for him, well and me too, but...I had done all this research. I come from a pretty closed minded family you know, home schooled, sheltered from the rest of the world. I mean I've had boyfriends before him, but it was all pretty straight forward when there was sex involved."
The conversation was taking a turn. But a pretty woman was about to tell me the history of her sex life and I couldn't see getting in the way of that. I was able now to take a bit of a breath and take her in. She was actually pretty stunning in her small town all American way. Blonde hair, clingy black dress and what looked to be a lace bra underneath that would revel itself when she moved a certain way.
"And sex wasn't always involved, especially when my folks first began to allow me to date. They would actually fall over dead if they knew I had sex now. God help me if they knew what I had planned. I was pretty shocked myself once I realized what I was willing to try." And she took a sip of the beer that had just arrived. "Thank you. You are very nice. Thanks. I should... probably..."
"It's fine, really. And you just got your beer. Stay at least until you finish that. It's not often a pretty girl sits with me and show's me the top of her stockings." And that got a bit of an embarrassed smile. "I mean I even got a, um, a, one of those...hang on I'l show you." And she reached down and opened her purse to reveal a vibrator. "That was like the first thing I got while doing my research."