"Hey, Dave," she said, "can Randy and I come over later?"
I recognized my sister-in-law's voice, of course, and said, "Sure." It was a Wednesday night and the most exciting thing we had planned was watching some silly sitcoms. The year was 1973 and if you wanted to catch a show you caught it when it was aired. VHS was still in the future and the internet was a computer guy's wet dream. "You're always welcome, what's up?
"Well, to tell the truth," she said in that musical voice of hers, "We want to talk to you guys about swinging."
Okay, as conversation stoppers go, that's a pretty good one, so I just said, "We'll be around all evening."
In 1973 my wife, Monica, was a Freshman and I was, technically a Junior although I was still taking Freshman level courses to fill in my core requirements. It turned out that the fancy tech schools I had attended in the Air Force translated into a whole bunch of college hours. Most of it was ridiculous, of course. I had three hours of
Military History
on my transcript, for example, based on, I suppose, successfully completing Air Force basic training. Because that's about all I had done even remotely military. Anyway, something like 120 college hours had been accepted making me, technically anyway, a junior. But I knew I had at least three years to go.
Monica and I married young. I was 20, and she was 19 when we went to the courthouse and got married by a judge. To this day, LO these MANY moons later, I still recall the final sentence of that archaic exchange of vows - To thee I plight my troth. Yeah, I had no idea what it meant but I said the words.
Shortly thereafter I became one of thousands of 1968 draftees who opted out of Vietnam by joining the Air Force. It took the Air Force almost a year to get me through the complex tech school and then we spent the next three years in Japan where I listened in on Chinese Communist radio communications and tried to figure out what the hell those guys were doing.
It didn't take long to discover that the Air Force would not be my career. I liked the work, but my tolerance for military bullshit was, effectively zero, hardly surprising for a 20-year-old baby boomer inundated practically daily with reports of how bad things were in Vietnam. Besides that, every cute girl I knew right up until I met my wife was anti-war, so if I wanted to date, that became my default position. But I lacked the commitment to burn my draft card, and thought too much of my dad to run to Canada, so I joined the Air Force instead.
My wife was a good Catholic girl, and the only one of five sisters who got out of the house not pregnant which was surprising because she wasn't a virgin our first time together. I, on the other hand, was always careful. No rubbers, I was a pull-out kind of a guy, but it worked. And besides, the girls I had been with, ((chuckles)) all four of them at the time, seemed to enjoy the sensation. But we were both of the generation that felt like we, well, we owned each other, you know? We were exclusive.
And that's how we lived. In the Air Force, while not something I thought of as terribly military, it was a life that tended to be nomadic for those who stayed in and was hard on marriages. In the group of which we were a part, there was a casual approach to adultery, what we called "wife-swapping" in those days. Monica and I kind of laughed about it but didn't participate.
When we got home we returned to Monica's hometown where the local campus of the state university system offered outrageously affordable schooling. In-state tuition was, in 1973, 85 dollars per semester, and that included textbooks. The story was that the long-time president of the university had contacts at the state legislature. But however it happened, I was happy to go to school full-time and live on the GI Bill.
We had been frugal, so we bought a used car for cash and found a little 10 X 50 house trailer that we could afford to pay for with cash too. And that transaction changed our lives.
My next-door neighbor in the little trailer park, and it was a nice place to live, a couple of dozen trailer pads cut into the woods, was another veteran and one of those guys who has a knack for meeting people. John knew everybody in the park, and that included his sister, Sandy, and her husband, Tom.
Monica and I were serious students.
Well, we were serious students eight hours a day. We both figured that was our job. We both carried 4.0 averages (yeah, on a 4-point scale). But it was a JOB for us, and when the clock on the wall said 5:01 the desk lamp would go out, the books would be set aside, you'd hear that satisfying "Pawhoosh" sound of a beer opening, and we'd fire up a joint.
We partied, at least in terms of drinking, smoking pot, and often having a few friends over, literally every night.
And the sex was good. Hell, it was better than ever. We were of that generation that pretty much stuck with the missionary position. But with all of the casual sex and the sexual innuendo in almost every conversation, we were getting more creative.
Monica was a tiny woman. When I met her, on a blind date as it happened, the attraction had been when her friend described her as "four foot eleven with a southern accent." The description had been accurate. She was 4'11" in bare feet, 34C-28-36, a slightly bottom-heavy hourglass, and cute rather than pretty.
In many ways, besides her height, she was Ms. Average, the perfect counterpoint to my Mr. Average (at that time I was 5'10", 165 pounds, and wore 30/30 jeans, a medium (15 1/2 X 32) shirt, and a 38R jacket. I saved a lot of money buying things that had been on the mannequin when displays were changed.
Monica was the same. She had dirty blonde hair worn short. Brown eyes, wide set, were I thought, her best feature. She had a slightly oversized nose, slightly undersized ears, a generous mouth, and freckles. Cute, not pretty.
With her clothes off, though, she was pretty damn nice. Her shoulders were broad, her breasts a legitimate C cup looked much bigger on her small body, her waist wouldn't qualify as "wasp-waisted," but gave her a nice hourglass figure, and her slightly oversized hips gave her a hint of a pear shape. She had good legs, slightly heavy in the thighs, GREAT calves, and cute little feet.
This was in the early 1970s and we were kind of reveling in our newfound role as hippies so I threw away her razor. She turned out to be one of those women with very sparse body hair. Between her legs, her
mons veneris
, that lovely Mound of Venus that presents a woman's sex, was covered with very straight, very sparse hair exactly the same color as that on her head. In her armpits, the hair that grew in matched that between her legs, and on her legs the hair was never very visible, even after a year without the razor.
Her pussy was a mere slit. We had no children so there had been none of the strain that makes women who have delivered vaginally dangle. I thought of it as a tidy little pussy and I liked it very much.
In many ways, though, her ass was her best feature. It was small but still slightly oversized on her small frame. It made the perfect inverted heart shape when seen from behind, the heart bisected by the line of her
gluteal cleft
, her ass crack. She showed incipient dimpling on it and since I'd seen her mother and sisters I figured that by 40 it would be a very big ass but for now it was a pretty ass.
All of which brings me to that weird phone call from Myra. I told Monica about it and her reaction surprised me.
She smiled.
"Oh, shit," I said, laying my palms against her cheeks when she tried to look away, "You're interested."
Her eyes were darting around, deliberately avoiding mine.
I held her like that, my palms against her cheeks, not allowing her to look away.
"You are, aren't you," I said, holding her as she tried to twist her face away.
She was crying now. Not sobbing, but tears and snot were running.
Monica is cute, but she's not when she cries. Her face was red, her eyes swollen, and her sinuses swollen giving her face a puffy look.
I kissed her, softly.
"Say it," I said.
She drew a deep breath, held it, and let it out.
"Yes," she said, her eyes meeting mine now, almost defiant, "I'm interested."