My next-door neighbor Amy had a thing for me, I sensed it. I could tell by her eyes when we she looked at me, by her body posture and especially by the tone of her voice when we talked and others weren't around.
You know what, I liked her, too. I connected with Amy, she shared my same sick sense of humor. Seems we were always laughing about something when we were together. We had great sexual chemistry and I knew she felt it, too.
Trouble was, she and my wife are friends.
So, the powerful unsaid thing between Amy and I was this: lets' you and I enjoy the sexual attraction for what it is and understand that it doesn't go anywhere.
She was small, about 5.1, with jet-black hair and well built in an athletic way, she was a swimmer in college and continued exercising in her adult life. It showed, even in her early 40s her legs had that wonderful smooth-muscled swimmer's tone and, god, I loved to look at them when she mowed the lawn in summer in her shorts...When she saw me, she would always give a big smile and wave "hi!" and sometimes she'd stick her tongue out.
I wondered if she could tell that I was imagining the two of us naked somewhere and making love, her beautiful legs wrapped around me, her toes curling in pleasure. Yeah...that thought always made my yard work pleasant.
One warm summer evening, Amy called me at my house and told me that a pipe in her basement had sprung a leak and she wondered if I could help her fix it. It was a weekend and I was by myself as my wife had gone to the beach with the kids to visit one of her college friends.
I told Amy that I'd get my tools and come on over. When I arrived, Amy answered the door in short jean cutoffs and a black tank top that didn't do much to hide the fact that she was braless...and what a magnificent chest she had! I could see her nipples poking through the black cotton.
My momentary fantasy of her breasts unencumbered by the little tank top was starting to give me a woody so I tried to put it out of my mind as I went downstairs with her to the basement.
I could see the problem right away; a split in an overhead water pipe was leaking badly. The only way to stop it was to replace the cracked piece with another length of pipe and couple them together with a sleeve. Well, it just so happened I had a length of PVC pipe in my toolbox that I could cut to fit and a plastic coupling sleeve.
I could tell by her face that I had saved the day! She asked what she could do and I told her to please shut off the water to the house. Amy padded off to do that and was nice enough to bring me a beer when she returned .
Like all plumbing problems, the job turned out to be tougher than it looked. The split was in a tight area between the furnace and the corner wall.
"You are not claustrophobic, are you?" she laughed as I squeezed in there.
"Well, yeah I am a little", I replied, winking at her, "but it'll only show it if you start to brick me in here."