Another true story.
These days our rowdier sexual exploits happen far from home. Cindy and I are visible personalities in our small city, with civic involvements and other high-profile interests that make people take notice. Pictures of either of us have been "above the fold" on Page 1 of the local newspaper a dozen or more times in the past fifteen years. We're unconventional personalities doing interesting and creative things, and it simply doesn't dawn on folks that interesting, unconventional and creative doesn't stop at the bedroom door. Really, people? Think about it.
Putting the obvious aside, one of the main reasons for away-from-home public sex play
was
an "Oh, shit!", an unintended and unwanted encounter several years ago with a local professional acquaintance and her husband at a swinger bar sixty miles away. She already had a reputation, so no skin off her nose. Longer story short, it did have repercussions for us including Cindy losing her job, and we're still having issues resulting from it in some respects. So even in retirement we now limit our play to far-off locales, with potential sexual adventures worked into travel itineraries.
A family gathering 500 miles away was one of those opportunities.
Craigslist
's adult connection personals were still online at the time, and were a rich source of leads for anonymous sex venues along our route. I did our homework, and found what sounded like a good candidate near our reunion city: some of the personal ads were looking for meet-ups in this particular adult bookstore's "lounge area". That was a pretty good indication they were setup for on-premises sexploits.
The bookstore was a fair distance off the main roads, on a two-lane state route through a river valley. We booked a room at one of the name-brand hotels on the Interstate nearest the turnoff for the state highway; also close enough to the big city to be convenient for the family gathering.
Our obligations completed, on our drive back to the hotel we were discussing the evening's game plan. "Uhh... I didn't bring any play clothes," Cindy warned. Damn. U-turn to the mall. The best we could find was a so-so sundress; the hem was too long and the skirt was lined, so other than the spaghetti straps and tight bodice it really wasn't her style and not all that sexy. It would have to do.
After a "disco nap" to revive us for late-night activities, we find the two-lane and head north to the little town with the bookstore. Oh my god was it foggy. We crept along white-knuckled, hoping that the locals used to such conditions weren't driving the route from memory and feel, not expecting out-of-towners to be in their way at half the speed limit.
Not to worry, we found the bookstore, the fog having lifted enough to see the barely lit portico, "
ADULT
BOOKS" and "XXX
ADULT
TOYS". We park close, gather ourselves up and peer into the store, a very small room hopelessly claustrophobic with adult toys, videos, lingerie, and everything under the sun with sexual pretenses hung on the walls and anything else that might have been stationary for more than half an hour.
We slink to the counter and somehow managed to find the clerk hiding in the clutter. I query with much hesitation, "I hear you have a lounge." "$15 for couples, no out and back. Through there," as he tilts his head towards a beaded-curtained doorway.
"Chatty!" under her breath as Cindy rolls her eyes. On tendering the entry fee, we part the beads, then find a door to the left. Through the door and to our right is a sizable great room with a surprising amount of furniture: nice-ish imitation leather sofas and loveseats, occasional tables and a few TVs scattered around. Immediately to our right is a raised area that for lack of better description is an
observation deck
with a lean railing. Interesting.