It was Manhattan, and the days of looking for a steady woman were grinding. Don't get me wrong, I was ok with the night after night bar and club hanging with the guys in search of a score, and the blind dates to a point, but I truly was getting more serious about things and was frustrated with the lack of success.
I lived in an Upper East Side studio in a great doorman building. My friends and I would use my apartment in the days that followed college as 'home base' and it was the center of fun in the City. But, when everyone went about there days work and became serious about keeping their job or keeping their new wife or steady girlfriends happy, I was mostly on my own with my own career.
On the way in or out of the building, in the lobby or on the floor that I lived, I would occasionally pass Maxine, an attractive married mother of two young teens who would always give me a great smile and genuine hello. Living just a few apartment doors away I could expect to see her on more than a weekly basis and would love the few times we would coincidently wait for the elevator together or ride it for those few moments.
She was truly an engaging person who had an overwhelming sexy personality. Being in her early 40's her body was awesomely curved and she had a well rounded chest and thin waste. She was always well dressed and was some type of professional. Her eyes captured you with clarity and her lips and face were perfect.
Our chance meetings seemed to develop into more and more of a friendship, where she and I soon new each others names and she would continuously comment or ask on how she would observe me coming home with a date and how it went, or how things were going with my job or how was my weekend out at the beach... etc.
As months of our familiarity passed, she was always on my mind especially knowing she was just a few doors away. The doorman of the building had offered that she was always fighting with her husband, which was also not a secret to me as many a time such fights echoed down the hall.