WET PANTIES LIST
It was going to be our twenty-fifth anniversary, so we wanted to do something really special to celebrate it. After twenty-five years we had done a lot of exciting things together, but we wanted to do something different and enriching our relationship. We listed a number of things we'd like to do on a piece of paper and prioritized them according to expense and desirability. A trip to Niagara Falls, the Caribbean, Africa, Paris, and Greece were on the list. Doing something we had never done but always wanted to do. Although under the heading of personal growth we had nothing. We could not think of anything we wanted but hadn't done except travel.
Amazingly, however, what ended up as the top item on our list and it occurred totally by accident. We were at a movie watching a French film called Jules and Jim. It was about two men who were in love with the same woman. Not that that is so unusual, but the thing about the story was that she loved both of them. It is an old film and we watched it on an old movie network on television.
When the film was over Claire looked at me and smiled. "That would be exciting," she said
"What's that?" I said.
"Having two men in love with me," she said.
"Something you'd go for?" I said.
"I think any girl would," she said.
"That be a special twenty-fifth cerebration for the list?" I asked.
"Couldn't put it on the list unless we could make it happen," she said.
"Could fake it happen?" I said. "Or make it happen," I added.
"You mean let me attract some guy?" she said.
"Exactly," I said.
"Okay, I have an idea," she said. "You just get Glen Watson here this weekend and let me do the rest. It'll be like magic," she said. She smiled and went into the kitchen.
I called Glen Watson and spent some time chatting him up. We had gone to college together and spent some time hunting and fishing since. He was a hit with the ladies and I knew he was pretty liberal when it came to sexual matters. He had been married, but she died of cancer after a few years together. I figured to tell him about our anniversary proposal and find out what his attitude was about open marriage and extramarital sex.
I had heard that he and his wife had dabbled in mate swapping after they'd been married for a while. I told him we were thinking about opening our marriage. "Many do," he said.
"I asked my wife who she was attracted to and she said you," I said. "Ever been involved in something like that?" He said he had helped a couple out once who wanted to try it, let the wife 'experiment.' "If I offered you a chance to 'help us out,' would you be interested?"
"My wife and I had an understanding," he said. "We had friends, we called them bed-friends, who we were intimate with. She had a few. I had a few, and we trusted one another to be honest and not sneak around. It worked for us," he said. "We didn't try to convert anyone to our way of thinking, but some of our friends came over."
"So you understand our thinking on this?" I said, making sure I was clear.
"I not only understand, but I agree," he said. "You are a lot like we were. You're experimenting with ideas and new concepts."
I asked him if he would come to our house and make my wife happy. "I'd love to," he said.
My wife baked all morning. I wasn't sure what she was doing, but when Glen came over she brought out a plate of cookies. "These are magic Snickerdoodle cookies," she said. "They make you fall in lust with the first woman you see after you eat one," she said with a grin.
"Could I try one?" he asked.
"At your own risk," she said. He took one off the plate and took a bite.
"I'll be damned," he said after swallowing. "It worked."
"How do you feel?" she asked.
"Like ravishing the first woman I see," he said.
"Oh oh, there is only one woman here," she said, smiling coquettishly.
"That's what I was thinking," he said.
"It can be dangerous to go against witchcraft," she said.
"That's true," he said "Could I have another cookie?"
"It could have unpredictable consequences," she said. "You might want to be careful. You don't want to overdose."
"You're probably right," Glen said. "One cookie has probably been enough. I think it's working."