My friend Jeff's wife Katie was about to graduate from law school, and they invited me to her graduation party. As far as I knew, Jeff would be the only one I knew there, but I didn't have anything else going on that weekend, so I figured I may as well. It turned out Jeff is friends with Carl, my mechanic, who brought chili. I occasionally experiment with different recipes for chili myself, and his was really good. So, we pulled up a couple chairs near the buffet table and sat there geeking out over different combinations of ingredients. Carl got a call on his cell phone and had to take it in private. I got myself another plate of wings and sat down. I was looking down to dip a nacho chip in the cheese, and I looked up just as a somewhat large woman passed me by. We're not talking Roseanne levels here, but a little larger than Ashley Graham. She had a great party dress on. I could see her ass move from side to side as she headed to the other end of the table. She exuded confidence, which really turned me on. I took my plate with me and walked up behind her. She was getting some wings. I told her, "The sriracha sauce is really good."
She looked back at me and smiled. "I'll have to try it, then." She had just picked up a small paper bowl with the image of a cap and gown. She poured some of the sauce into it, then picked up a few wings and turned around.
I had to catch my breath, because this beauty was making the effort to talk to me face to face! "My name's Tom, but my friends call me Wolf," I told her.
"Samantha," she answered. "Friend of Jeff's?"
"Yeah. You?"
"I'm a paralegal at the firm where Katie's been interning."
I could see that her bust was as hot as her ass. "Do you go by Sam?" I asked.
"No," she said indignantly. "And I don't like green eggs and ham, either."
"Damn," I said. "I was gonna offer it on my boat."
"Are you joking?" Samantha asked. "I can't tell."
"I was joking, but I do have one," I answered.
"What kind?" she asked, and she headed for the living room. She wanted to continue the conversation!
"Outboard motor. Sometimes I go fishing, but mostly I like cruising around the lake."
"Me too. Not the fishing, 'cause I hate the smell. Just the cruising part."
"I'll bet you look great in a swimsuit," I said.
What happened, or didn't happen, next made my afternoon. "Yeah, I do, if I say so myself," Samantha said. "Thanks."
In the movie
Fantasia
, when the alligator is dancing with the hippo, the hippo knows she's beautiful, and the other hippos know they're beautiful. Even though we humans use hippos as a metaphor for fat women, no one in the movie thinks it's the least bit unusual that the alligator desires her. It's the same thing with Samantha. She didn't just accept my compliment. She believed it herself, and that made her even sexier than I already thought she was.
"What kind do you like to wear?"
"I usually wear a one-piece if it's too early in the spring, or if I'm with people I don't know."
"And in the summer?"
"I have a couple different bikinis. One of 'em covers more than my most conservative bra and panty combination. The other one's yellow and shows off my figure."
"Oh, please tell me it has polka dots," I joked.
Samantha laughed with me. "No, but I would totally get one if I could find it in my size."
"Well, is it at least itsy bitsy?"
She got her cell phone out and looked through her albums. She handed me the phone and said, "See for yourself."
My heart leaped when I saw the picture. "Where's the swimsuit?" I asked. She took the phone back and zoomed in. "Oh, there it is. Swear to God, it's so small, I thought you accidentally showed me a nude." She glared at me. "It's fantastic!"
"Now you know why it doesn't have polka dots."
"'Cause it's so narrow, there's no room!" I exclaimed. She nodded. "Hey, I know I said the swimsuit's fantastic, but you are too. I mean, literally fantastic. I'm looking at this picture and imagining." I was picturing her untying the side string on the bra portion, but I stopped myself from telling her. "Would you like to go for a boat ride sometime?"
"I'm free this weekend," Samantha said.
I went to the contacts on her phone and added my cell phone number. "Let me know when you want me to pick you up." In my mind, I was literally picking her up like the alligator with the hippo, and all our alligator and hippo friends were cheering us on. I saw Carl, and I used that as a good point to quit while I was ahead.
On Wednesday, Samantha texted me that I could pick her up any time after eleven on Saturday morning, and she'd meet me at the public parking lot near City Hall. She also sent me a selfie where she wore a blue bikini. It was less revealing than the tiny one she'd shown me before, but she was only wearing the bottom half, with her arms folded over her chest. "Just bought this one, b/c I loved what U said about me."
I replied, "11's fine, but if you dress like that, I might not pay attention to the water."
She texted back, "Counting on it (smiley face)." This time she sent a picture where she was wearing the yellow bikini bottom, but the top half was pulled down just far enough for me to see a couple wisps of her black pubic hair.
When I picked Samantha up, she had a small terrycloth bag. She was wearing a pocketed shirt, Bermuda shorts and sandals. I was wearing a captain's hat that I'd picked up at a vintage clothing shop. "Hiya, sailor!" she said.
"Hey, gorgeous!" I greeted her. "Wanna see my dinghy?" She didn't react. "Ah, crap, that's the best I could do. I mean, it really is 'cause you're so gorgeous, I couldn't come with anything funnier."
Samantha looked me straight in the eye and said, "I'd love to see your dinghy." Then, as if she'd had a bad experience before, she added, "But not here!"
"I'm parked a couple blocks away," I explained. "It was the closest place I could fit my car with the trailer behind it."
"I don't mind. I enjoy a good walk on a day like today," she told me.
"Good, 'cause I'd love for all of downtown to see the babe I'm with." She smiled when I said that.
When we got to the car, Samantha saw that I'd lifted one of the seats in the boat to reveal a storage area. I moved the picnic basket from the trunk of my car to the storage area, and she added her bag. I drove to a county park a few miles away, adjacent to a lake. Once I backed the boat into the water, Samantha stayed to watch it while I moved the car and the trailer to the area that's reserved for them. When I came back, she'd taken off her shirt. She was wearing the top of the yellow bikini. I put on my life jacket and started the motor, and we headed for open water. Once I could turn around, I saw she'd put one on too. She must have sensed my disappointment, because she said, "Safety first, but I knew you'd want to see me in the top first."
"Thanks for that," I said. We couldn't have much of a conversation because of the engine. About ten minutes later, I spotted the part of the shore I'd been looking for. "Land ho!" I yelled.