I met Wendy very much by accident.
As general manager of a building company, that also had a floorcovering discount retail business attached, I was kept very busy. One morning I was walking through the carpet sales office when I heard one of the sales phones ringing. With nobody around to answer it, they were all busy, I grabbed the call.
A lilting voice, enquired about carpet for her daughter's bedroom. Cutting a long story short, after a some minutes talk about her 9 year old daughters likes & dislikes, I convinced her of a particular carpet, parting with the words, "if you don't like it when it turns up at your place, just tell the carpet layer and he'll bring it back with no charge to you."
This was quite a bold statement as this lady lived at Coogee, in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, a beachside address and our business was in the western suburbs. Ah, what the hell I thought, she had a lovely voice and I was the boss.
I never thought anymore about it until a few weeks later when one of the floor sales guys came into my office.
"Hey boss, there's a good looking chick in the showroom asking after you."
I wandered down into the showroom and approached the "good looking chick".
The sales guy wasn't wrong!
She looked about mid twenties, five feet four or so, dark shoulder length hair, and being summer, she was wearing a yellow halter neck sun dress, which accentuated the swell of her breasts, pulled in at her narrow waist with a belt and flared out over her hips, stopping a few inches above the knee. Tanned legs and high heels completed the picture.
She was a stunner!
"Hi, can I help you?" I asked.
"Are you Rob?" she asked with a lilting, almost musical, voice.
It still didn't twig with me as I answered, "Yeah, how can I help you?"
'I just wanted to meet the man who could sell me carpet, sight unseen, over the phone and have it perfectly right. I'm Wendy, Wendy Richards from Coogee. You sold me some carpet for my daughter's bedroom."
"Oh I remember, you're the lady with the nine year old daughter. Hey, if you don't mind me saying so, you don't look anyway old enough to have a nine year old."
"I see the charm doesn't stop with the sales pitch," she smiled, "but thank you for the compliment, and trust me I am old enough to have a nine year old. Are you busy? Would you have time for a cup of coffee?"
"I am too much of a gentleman to say no to such a lovely lady, especially one who has travelled all the way from Coogee," I replied, and who looks as good as you I thought to myself.
I led her out to the main street, past some of my sales staff, who all had smirks on their faces, to a great coffee shop not far from my office.
After our coffees arrived I asked, "Did you really come all this way just to meet me."
"Yes, and to see what you looked like, you sounded so nice over the phone."
"Ah well, see voices can be deceiving."
"On the contrary," she answered, "sometimes they don't do their owners justice."
Where is this going, I thought to myself. Only one way to find out, direct action!
"I think we could discuss this theory of yours at length, why don't we do it over dinner, one night?"
"I'd like that. Ring me tomorrow, I'm not sure what my shifts are at work and I'll check my roster tomorrow."
I looked at her quizzically.
"Oh sorry, I'm a waitress at (and she named one of Sydney's top restaurants) and I don't get my shifts 'til tomorrow.
We chatted on over our coffees and agreed to make contact the next day. As she left she leaned over to me and kissed me lightly on the lips, "this has been way better than I'd hoped," she whispered, and walked off.
I couldn't wait to make the call the next day.
"Hi Wendy, it's Rob, calling with great anticipation."
I could hear the laughter in her voice.
"I wasn't sure you'd ring," she said, "I was a teeny bit forward yesterday."
Before I could say anything she went on.
"I used to be a back seat girl," (a mental picture of her naked in the back seat of my car leapt into my mind) I mean, I didn't speak out for myself, I just went with the flow but I found out by doing this I missed out on many opportunities. So nowadays I just speak my mind, so I'm really glad you rang."
"So am I," I said, and I meant it, "so how about that dinner."
"Friday's fine for me," she replied, "if that's OK with you?"
"Friday's perfect. I have a favourite restaurant in Surry Hills I'd like to take you to, so what say I pick you up about 7?"
"That'd be great; I'll look forward to seeing you then. Oh, and Rob," she paused.
"Yes," I asked.
"I promise you, it'll be a good night," she said softly, "Bye," and hung up.
I couldn't get up from my desk for a few minutes. I had a raging bloody hard on!
Friday night couldn't come quick enough!
I pulled up outside Wendy's, Coogee flat right on 7. It was one of the older style block of flats, probably built prior to world war 11, when there weren't so many cars around. These flats definitely lacked garaging and I was lucky to get a park outside.
She answered the door in a white silk kimono which, she was clearly oblivious to the fact, was quite transparent with the hall light behind her. Or maybe she wasn't.
"Oh I love a man who's punctual," leaning forward to kiss me lightly. "Come in and I'll get you a drink while I finish getting ready," as she took my hand and led me inside.
"Here's the lounge, the TV's on the news I think. Make yourself comfortable, is a beer ok or would you prefer a scotch or something?"
"No, a beer's fine."
I sat on the lounge and she appeared seconds later with a cold beer.
"I promise I won't be long," as she handed me the beer and disappeared down the hall.
The flat looked comfortable enough, well furnished, from what I could see, with older style furniture that complimented the era of the building.
"Oh bugger," I heard Wendy say from down the hall. "Rob could you come here for a minute please."
I exited the chair and went looking for Wendy. Just down the hall I glanced in the first doorway and saw her standing in front of a full length mirror. She was wearing a tight fitting gunmetal coloured dress, with thin shoulder straps, and that clung to her lithe body, accentuating her every curve, all the way down to the hem which finished a few inches above her knees. Black stockings and stilettos completed the picture.
She looked sensational!
"You called?" I asked.
"Can you see my panty line through the dress?" she asked.