Honey-Lee--the journeys of a TG Nympho
Chapter 11 -- Honey stranded at a truck stop
We were in Lake City, Florida taking in an antique car show and sale. Paul had his heart set on picking up a 1958 Cadillac convertible to be offered the following day. Then he got the text! "Emergency on oil drilling platform in the Sea of Japan! Down hole pressures fluctuating wildly! Your presence required Now! Your flight departing Gainsville Regional Airport, GNV 2100 hours for connections in Chicago. Be on it."
Paul is a highly respected consultant and the peremptory tone of the text concerned him. He called a trusted old friend at the head office of the international firm operating the mid-ocean rig. "Get there, Paul" he was advised. You can bill them whatsoever number you can think of. They all have their asses in the air because none of their engineers understand what's going on and you're the guy who wrote about this potential problem in a paper you presented several years ago about feathered fragmentation in deep sea formations.
"I've gotta go, baby" Paul decides. "It's not just big bucks. It's international reputation. In minutes I'm behind the wheel of our trusty Toyota van and we're burning up the pavement of I-75 southbound for Gainesville about 50 miles away. We arrived GNV at 1940 hours and since the first hop is domestic, we're pretty sure he'll get on. Paul grabs the small bag he had packed for Lakeland, inappropriate likely for the Sea of Japan but it will have to do with his always-carried Canadian passport -- and he's gone.
I pull out of GNV and toward I-75 but I badly need to pee-pee so pull over at the first rest stop where suddenly, disaster strikes. Florida maintains a network of clean, safe and pleasant stops built and maintained by the state to enhance the "Florida Experience" for millions of Americans and foreigners who flock to Florida annually to enjoy its unmatched attractions, both natural and man-made. I've never encountered a problem in any of them. This time however, two 200 pound bull-dikes belly me back into the cubicle as I emerge. One shoves a blade to my throat while the other snatches my bag from my shoulder and cuffs my wrists together high behind my back and secured to an upper rail on the cubicle. They depart with my bag, cell phone, keys, money, credit cards and . . . well, everything that says I'm me.
There's an emergency phone in the central area and after I struggle free, I use it to summon help that soon materializes as two state police cars arrive from opposite directions, blue lights flashing. Did I get their license number? No. Can I describe their vehicle? No. But I do describe two husky bull dikes with very short cut black hair, distinctive tattoos and one with distinctive leather boots. It will have to do, they agree. They take my cell number but of course, the bitches have my phone.
My one ace in the hole is that the Toyota has a keyless entry system, a concealed ignition key, and hopefully, a few dollars in change scattered amongst its many and capacious compartments. I gain entry and sink gratefully into the Toyota's familiar seats. "I'm OK", I tell myself. "I'll be fine. It's only two and a half hours home and I can call all the credit card companies and the mobile phone provider to report the thefts. I'm going to be all right." But my hands are trembling and I'm not reassured by a group of a half-dozen dike bikers watching me intently as I pull away, even though I don't see my attackers amongst them.
I pull back onto I-75 and head for home but I've gone fewer than ten miles when the trusty Toyota begins to hiccup and balk. I know instantly what has happened. They've sabotaged my van, for what reason I can only guess with trepidition. An exit flashes ahead and I spot a major truckstop sign so I wheel into the off ramp, and eight big bikes follow just a few cars back. The Toyota is foundering like a mule with a bellyful of mouldy oats so I head her into a forest of parked, rumbling highway behemoths. There are still a few "eighteen wheelers" but most now are "22 wheelers" and up. I see mostly 53 foot trailers, lots of "B-trains" and a scattering of highboys hauling heavy equipment. I hunker between an idling Kenworth and a Mack both pulling 53s.. The Toyota coughs to a stop and I don't try to restart her, knowing her tank is probably laced with sugar and her faithful heart may have stopped forever. But will be only a matter of time before the bikes I hear prowling the lot discover me.
I'm not exactly dressed for safely navigating a southern truck stop either. I'm dressed as Paul likes me to dress for his private pleasure on the road: black, lace-top, thigh-length hose, black micro panties, black mini-skirt extending about an inch south of the tops of the stockings, black bra, black silk v-neck top, and a black velvet ribbon around my neck. There's a gold chain around my left ankle and I'm wearing pale makeup with thick black mascara on my eye-lashes, thick grey shadow around my eyes and brilliant, wet-look scarlet lipstick.. My long blond hair is blown "big" and the only shoes I have other than laceup a pair of tennis shoes are the ones I'm wearing, 4" black patent spikes. I debate the tennis shoes for a moment and elect to keep the spikes. My old English grandmother (who was actually Norwegian) had a saying: "in for a penny, in for a pound". I think it means something like "if you're gonna go for it, then GO for it".
I stepped out of the van with the idea of getting to the central building, finding a pay phone (do they still exist?) calling a tow truck or a taxi and somehow getting home. With my wallet gone however and no AAA card, my hopes of getting a tow truck to take the trusty Toyota, even to Sarasota or my dealer in Venice seemed slim indeed. I might have enough cash for a taxi but at this time of night, no sane driver is going to pick up a woman like me at a truck stop and drive her 240 miles to an address deep in a darkened residential neighborhood. No way. I'm strutting along in my spikes between the trucks when I hear the rumble of bikes at the end of the row, about the same time a Georgia drawl from a window above my head says: "Y'all look a bit lost there, little lady". I glance at the single headlight turning in at the end of the row, look up at the bearded face above and say: "Oh yes sir. I'm lost and I'm afraid those nasty bikers are comin' after me."
The truck door swings open, a booted foot is planted on the step and a strong arm swings me up into the cab. I'm enveloped in man-scent. Not nasty, just the distinctively rich thick scent of Man. He juggles me around the huge steering wheel and various other pieces of equipment before depositing me on a seat to his right. He turns on a low, purplish under-dash light and examines what he has hauled in from the night. "Y'all kin call me Thad" he introduces himself. "From Sugar Hill, Georgia." And I'm Honey-Lee from Punta Gorda, Florida I counter.
"Right proud to meetcha'll. Honey-Lee from Punta Gorda. But what in tarnation y'all doin' wandrin' amongst the wheelers in the middle of the night?"
I spill my tale of a boyfriend snatched away by shadowy oil barons, criminal dikes at a rest haven, my sabotaged beloved Toyota, my stolen ID and credit cards and my fear of the dike's now patrolling the parking lot for me, for reasons I can only guess and fear. I don't forget to spill a few tears and numerous deep sighs and soon Thad's big hands are stroking my hair and I am sitting on his lap as he comforts me. "There's a good ol' boy just south of Sarasota" he muses "can prob'ly save that little van of yours." "Prob'ly set you back $500 'stead of $5,000.00 fer a new engine-- 'specially ifn y'all kin show him a little kindness. He's bin mighty lonely since his Lizza went off with the SnapOn Tools salesman. "