I was blue. "It's my birthday, 7o'clock, Graham's not home yet" I thought "and my sister hasn't even bothered to call me. No one loves me." So I decided to have another drink while I waited for Graham to arrive home from work.
He arrived and presented me with a huge bunch of flowers, one thing I can always count on from my man is flowers, a huge hug and a deep kiss, then he reached into his briefcase and pulled out a small parcel and handed it to me with a "Happy birthday, Sweetheart"
I burst into tears then sobbed out my blues on his shoulder. "Don't cry baby, come on dry the tears, throw on some glad rags and we'll go to the pub for dinner." He still knows what helps to cheer me up, even after all these years together.
With gentle urging I opened my gift and found a delightful little ruby pendant and gold chain and nearly started to cry again.
"Come on," he said, "times wasting. Let's go."
A quick change into some nice sexy gear, short dress with a crossover bodice which shows off just enough of my natural assets - all 36dd of them - to their best advantage, mid height heels, a whiff of Giorgio and away we went.
The pub was fairly quiet being a Wednesday night so there was no problem getting a table and the service was fairly fast. We gave our order and the waiter told us it would be about 20 minutes before our meals were ready so we told him we would be in the pokie's having a flutter.
We walked into the gaming room and I spotted my favourite machine was vacant, the machine to my left was being used by a 'young girl' who nodded to me as I sat down and dropped a couple of coins in the chute to pass the time while Graham was organizing drinks and change. The first couple of pulls were losses and I was thinking about moving on when I pulled the handle and my mobile rang all at the same time.
I watched the reels spin to a halt as I fumbled with the mobile and heard my sister's voice singing "Happy Birthday" while at the same time I heard the jackpot music start to play on my machine. I gave my sister short shrift for being so late calling me and considered my luck, a fifty dollar drop, not bad for a thirty cent investment.
The girl next to me smiled and said "Well done, I'm glad someone can take some money out of them occasionally." I smiled back and said it was a pretty rare occurrence.
Graham arrived back about then and presented me with a glass of bubbles and with a leer down the front of my dress said "Happy Birthday Baby." We clinked glasses and sipped. My poker machine neighbour said "Happy Birthday" smiled and raised her glass in toast as well, I said "Thanks."
Graham decided that he would move on to his favourite machine and said he would be back a bit later.
I played in silence with a slightly higher than normal average of drops from the machine for a while, then me neighbour said "You seem to having a good run tonight, can I touch you for luck." I smiled and said sure, then leant over toward her and sort of noticed that her gaze dropped to my cleavage where the dress was tending to gape.
"My name's Annalee," she said, "what's yours?" I introduced myself saying "Pleased to meet you Annalee, I'm Susan and the other half over there is Graham." With that we started to chat as we played.
Shortly the waiter arrived and told Graham that our meals were ready, so I told Annalee that we would catch up with her later and we went in to eat.
We weren't in a particular hurry to eat so took our time and didn't get back to the poker machines for about an hour. There was an elderly man playing my machine so I went looking for another then decided to join Graham on his machine.
We settled down to play with our fortunes rising and falling as is normal for the machines. Graham was mumbling under his breath about "One armed thieves and pirates." So we decided to pack up and head off for home and the rest of Graham's birthday surprise for me, I wonder what he might have in mind, as if I didn't know, it was always on his mind. Particularly when I wore my CFM dress.
As we stood and started to walk out I spotted Annalee and called out to her saying goodnight. She immediately rose from her machine and came over and said "You can't go yet, I wanted to buy you a drink for your birthday."
I apologized and said "I'm sorry Annalee, but we really are tired and Graham has a headache." Annalee said "Well how about I buy a bottle of bubbles and you can come back to my place where it's quiet, you and I can have a drink and Graham can rest."