I knew I's been going through a rut since breaking up with a cheating girlfriend two months earlier but didn't see anything wrong with a spartan lifestyle until Walter, a good friend at work took it upon himself to conduct a one man intervention. He approached me in the cafeteria during my last break.
"Hey man; can I ask a probing question?"
"No."
"You getting any; you know, trim?"
My blatant refusal wasn't going to stop my chubby, Latin cohort from finding out what he wanted to know. A few weeks early, I'd let the cat out of the bag telling him that my relationship with former girlfriend Cecily had imploded when the nitwit unwittingly included me in a group text with her friends giving the down and dirty about a hook up with some middle eastern DJ guy at the ritzy Standard Hotel. I'd been informed earlier that she would be attending a family function out of town. This obviously didn't go over so well with me as Cecily immediately blocked me and never bothered trying to give me closure of any type.
"I take the fifth."
"You ain't getting none, dude; it's time to throw some dirt on that shit show biatch and move the needle. You need some reset pussy, man."
"What the fuck is reset pussy?" I asked making sure no women were in earshot of our breakroom conversation.
"It's the next pussy you get after a chick cheats on you. Don't you know anything, man? Now, this shit is imperative because the longer you go without sticking a new chick, the closer the cuck clock gets to striking midnight on your sorry ass."
"Cuck clock?"
"Yeah man, you'll turn into a vegimax soy boy if you don't put it down on some trim, tonight dude." Walter was this short, stout street comedian sometimes unfavorably called a Mexican Jack Black. We'd been friends since the last semester of community college, both getting jobs at the same office.
"If I'm not mistaken, you spent six months crying when Darla dumped your fucking ass; am I right?"
"Man, you don't understand nothing; I'm trying to help you stay off that road. Anyway, I fucked Darla in the ass, right before she married that douche bag Ricky."
The woman we spoke of was this short, buxom rockabilly chick nobody thought he should be with. A literal femme fatale with unfavorable comparisons to Jessica Rabbit. I have to admit not being able to keep my eyes off her full bottom at times. It turned out Darla was seeing a rival, one Ricky Alvera who had the edge in the triangle because he was in a band.
"How'd you accomplish that, pray tell?" Inquiring minds wanted to know, seriously.
"You know she work out in the valley at the bank, right?"
"Yeah?"
"I saved up like, seven hundred dollars and went over there to open up an account with my Sunday finest on and everything."
"I thought you closed your account over there after she cheated?"
"Shut up homes; just fucking listen. I go over there on like Friday afternoon; cause that's when the line is the most crowded and shit. Of course Darla's working new accounts and its Hella busy, so I just sit there in the waiting area facing her desk with this Mentos fucking smile on my face, right? So I just keep on smiling hard as fuck, like the Joker or something until she can't take it anymore!" Walter wiped an errant strand of hair over his brow as he spoke, grinning at the memory of what he'd done.
"What happened next?"
"Darla's like "All what're you doing here; what the fuck you want?!!" totally pissed, right? I mean, she's so mad that she don't even give two fucks about cursing in front of customers. I just tell her I'm there to open an account and she takes me right away. Those fucking banks always hawking accounts and shit like rocks, right?"
"Walter!" I just wanted him to get to the point.
"You see Darla must've been behind on her quota because she took me even though she can't stand me. I started asking all the hundred dollar questions about accounts and shit right, pissing her even more while she opened the account. So Darla finally gets around to asking me why I'm smiling so hard and shit; that's' when I hit the knockout blow, man!!" Walter started giggling maniacally making me doubt his sanity at that point, but I nudged him in the shoulder.
"COME ON!"
"I tell my ex-girlfriend Darla Rivera; love of my shitty life and mother to my imaginary babies-that I hit the lottery for twelve million."
"Man-GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!!" I guffawed thinking he was full of shit, but Walter kept going.
"Yeah, she said the same thing, but I knew I had that greedy motherfucker caught up; there ain't nothing she love more than spending other people's money and shit. So, I'm all like "Thanks a lot for opening my account, it's been real"-but I said it different, all serious and all so she's got this "Oh shit, it might be true" caught in the headlights look as I get up shaking her hand."
"Yeah?"
"I went for that fucking Hail Mary walking to the door knowing that if she didn't follow me, the shit was over; but here she come all smiling in my face bringing up the good ole shitty times. I keep behaving all distant talking to her like it's no big deal, so now I can see she really is panicking. Check this; old girl invites me out for a few drinks, and she's got her hand on my arm, not letting go. We leave the bank right there ending up at this bar knocking them back."
"Keep going." I was hooked.
"She's acting all remorseful telling me a bunch of shit, just non-stop talking about all of the times we hooked up and running down that Ricky motherfucker. She lets slip that they're getting married that weekend, but says she's having second thoughts-after seeing me."
"Fucking bitch." I commented.
"Darla keeps going on and on, bawling when I wish her the best. She just knows she's about to lose out on some big money after trading me for a garage band loser; she can't wrap her fucking head around that shit, serious. Darla's starts talking about having one last fuck with me and I'm just staying distant until she says she'll let me get that big fat ass of hers. Remember what happened when I gave her that accidental poke in the booty, remember that one time?"
"Beat your ass, I remember."
"Well, now she's got that fucking Hershey Highway opened up for me, man! She's planning on getting her hands on my money and Darla Rivera don't care how she gotta do it. What she don't know is that I got a friend in the security department at that big hotel down town. This guy's a supervisor and he got me a key to the presidential suite."
"You didn't?"
"Yes I did, man; Darla gave me that girlfriend experience wrapped around that serious porn star experience. I never knew she could get down like that; nasty bitch even rimmed me, serious!! So we fuck like animals and I just wreck that booty like it's going out of style. The whole time she won't let up with the feelings shit, so right near the end I tell her that I'm starting to feel the same way too. Darla's so fucking fake making herself cry talking about second chances saying she ain't marrying loser Ricky."
"Man, you crazy."
"Slipped out while she was taking a shower. Security rolled right up after I left the door open; found her butt naked in the shower, too. Darla got that police action for being a squatter along with a busted booty! I checked Facebook and found out she got married anyway but I was just laughing my ass off! You should've seen that wedding picture; Darla needed a smile from Rent-A-Center!" The break room burst into uproarious laughter. Several of our peers had gathered to hear the story.