Please bear with me as I start. I'll try to keep this introduction short, but I believe it's necessary to show that what happened was entirely accidental and did happen.
We live in a two bedroom mini-home. It may be called a duplex, because it is part of a single structure consisting of two of these units separated by a pair of garages under one roof. Each garage has its own lift front door, but strangely to me there is no separation within the garage space. I can walk through from one side to another. Each two bedroom unit is a mirror image of the other. Our duplex is one of a set of four in a row leaving a total of eight families living here.
My back door abuts a six foot fence with another long row of apartments on the opposite side. But there is about a four foot clearance between my door and the fence. The water heater and our washing machine are there. I've added a gas fired clothes dryer inside the garage with the management's permission. I can walk out that back door and turn right and I'm facing the rear garage door. It is very convenient when it is raining. I can open the large garage door from inside and close it again and then exit and enter the house without getting wet.
We've been living here for five years with the same neighbors. They are a nice couple just about three years younger than we are. I'll call them P and B.
P is a truck driver and works long hours, and his work is short haul so he is usually home every night and weekend. B is a nice looking house frau (nothing untoward is intended in this description it's just that I'm a man). B appears to have a nice figure, but always keeps it covered well. She appears happy most of the time and is friendly to everyone. My wife and B are about the same height and weight, but my wife has larger breasts and is prettier in the conventional sense. As I've said B is nice looking, but I think that the way she dresses may detract from her looks at times.
Both women are caring, friendly ladies and they like each other. They sometimes go places together. Both women drive, but P and B have only one car. We bought my wife a car to do the odds and ends she enjoys, so we have a pick-up and a car.
I'm an electrical sub-contractor building a small business, and I know that I'll never be rich unless I win a lottery. Still, it is a pleasant job, I make a living at it and I enjoy myself. At home I build little things and repair the cars as they need it.
Now my story can begin I think. My wife had driven up to visit her parents for the day, and so when I got up I pulled on a pair of 501's and a t-shirt and went out to change the oil in my pickup -- it'd been nearly four thousand miles since the last one.
I'd crawled under and was removing the plug from the oil pan when B came into the garage and asked if she could use our dryer. Normally, she'd always use a clothesline behind their half of the duplex. We are friends and this was not an unusual request when it looked like it may rain. I told her to go ahead, and she returned to get the clothes she'd washed.
I looked out from under the truck and could only see her from the neck down. She was dressed in a simple housedress that was a little worn. As I studied her I thought I could see her nipples pushing the front of the dress and a loose button, a bit lower in the front, seemed to open and close as she moved. She would take each piece of clothing, turn to the side toward me and shake it before throwing it into the dryer. I stared as that dress opened. It was below waist height and the garage light didn't give enough illumination to be certain, but I thought I detected quick glimpses of soft brown hair every few movements.
I must have been unusually quiet for that few minutes because B stopped and turned and then bent over and asked if I was alright. I thought for a moment as I watched the open neckline of that dress. She was about eight or ten feet away but my attention was riveted. For a moment I sat there dumb, and then managed to squeak that I was just resting my arms as I picked up the wrench again.
She turned back, finished what she was doing and returned home. My mind was racing at what I'd seen, and my attraction to her went up a notch.
The property had been resold about a year previously. The new landlord had quietly asked and then inspected each unit. As I lay under the truck, I heard a knock on the hood. I climbed out and saw him smiling there and we shook hands.